£190 FOR STAMPS
SCHOOLBOY COLLECTOR’S LUCK
LONDON, July 8
A twelve-year-old schoolboy in Newton Abbott, South Devon, received a telegram from London yesterday to say that he would be paid £l9O for a block of nine stamps.
The block, consisting of nine of the finest Indian stamps to be printed, was found together 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, named Henry John Wilson, of Branscombe, Highweek, Newton Abbott, being a keen collector, bought the block as a speculation, and arranged for them to be sold by auction. Yesterday, in the auction rooms of Messrs Harmer Rooke and Co., Ltd., the block was bought for £l9O by an agent who had been instructed to secure them for a specialist in Indian stamps. “The block of stamps dates back to 1854, and is quite unique,” a stamp expert declared, yesterday. “There may be a few separate stamps, but so far as we know there is no other block in existence.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1928, Page 8
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