£l9o FOR NINE STAMPS
DISCOVERY IN OLD BIBLE LONDON, July 12. A schoolboy at Newton Abbot, Devon, has received £l9O from the sale by auction of a block of nine unused Indian one anna stamps, the possession of which he owed to his keenness as a collector and his knowledge of stamp values. The block was found, with a number of separate stamps of the same issue, in the back of a large family Bible by a schoolboy, who offered them for sale at £1 each. Another boy in the same school, Henry John Wilson, bought the bloc kas a speculation, and arranged for them to be sold by auction. Yesterday afternoon, at the London auction rooms of Messrs Hanner, Rooke and Co., Ltd., the block was bought for £l9O by an agent wlio had been instructed to secure them for a special ist in Indian stamps. “ The block of stamps dates back to 1854, and is unique," a stamp agent declared. “ There may be a few separate stamps, but so far as we know there is no other block in existence.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 2
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182£l90 FOR NINE STAMPS Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 2
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