STAMP SOLD
MOST VALUABLE IN WORLD. A small piece of paper valued at 50,000 dollars—the most valuable stamp in the world —has.been bought
by R. H. Macy and Company for an unnamed client, states The New York Times. Mrs. Ann Hind Scala, of Utica, New York, sold the stamp. The stamp, whose' value is recorded in Scott’s Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue is the only known example of the one-cent British Guiana black-on-magenta of 1856. It has been
sought by leading collectors in all parts of the world, including the late King George V. of Great Britain.. The stamp originally was sold for six shillings. by a youth,,' L. Vernon Vaughan, who discovered it among old family papers in' 1873 in Demarara, British Guiana., Since .then it has passed through' many hands. -
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1940, Page 9
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131STAMP SOLD Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1940, Page 9
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