RARE STAMP SOLD
MOST VALUABLE IN WORLD A small piece of paper valued at 60,000 dollars—the most valuable stamp in tho world—has been bought by R. H. Macy and Company for an unnamed client, states The Neiy 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-oent 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 t 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. Sinoe then, it has passed' through many hands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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132RARE STAMP SOLD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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