WORLD’S RAREST STAMP

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 10

WORLD’S RAREST STAMP

INSURED FOR £lO,OOO The rarest postage stamp in the world the one cent British Guiana, issued in 1856, is being sent to London for sale. This stamp, the only copy known to exist, was sold in the famous Ferrari! sale in Paris about fourteen ago for £7,343 —the highest price aver paid for a single stamp. Its purchaser was tho late Mr. Arthur M. Hind, of Utica, New York, one of the world’s greatsst stamp collectors, whose collection is now being dispersed, by order of Mr. F. M. J. Hind, of Bradford. The Bri-

tish Guiana stamp, however, remained the property of Mr. Hind’s widow who is now offering it for sale. This roughly produced stamp, which was seen four years ago at a philatelic exhibition in London, was printed in a British Guiana newspaper office, and was first discovered in 1872 in a schoolboy’s collection. He, it is said, sold it to another collector for six

,! shillings. Years later the stamp came into the possession of the late Count Philippe La Renotiere Von Ferrari at a cost of £155. Ferrari’s collection was sequestrated by the French Government in the course of the Great War, and was sold by auction for over £lOO,OOO. Tho stamp has been insur-* Cd at Lloyd’s for £lo.ooo.