£7343 Stamp Found in Garret
A scrap of red paper, a British Guiana postage stamp of 1856, which was originally worth one cent, is now valued at £7343. It is the most valuable stamp in the worid, and was loaned to the Exhibition of Rare Stamps, held in London in Deeembor, by Mr Arthur Hind, an American collector.
The stamp’s story was told recently by Mr Cyril Harmer, the stamp auctioneer. “In British Guiana the issue of stamps from England ran short in 1856," he said, “and a few were roughly printed in the office of a Georgetown newspaper. They all disappeared except this specimen, which, after being originally discovered 17 years later by a schoolboy in a garret, fetched its record price at a sale in Baris in 1922.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6789, 22 February 1932, Page 2
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130£7343 Stamp Found in Garret Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6789, 22 February 1932, Page 2
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