to the uninitiated you would be known as a philatelists, as a kid I had a nice stamp collection, but boy did I miss out on this one! arguably the world's most expensive stamp, the Sweden Three Skilling Banco, Yellow Color Error, 1855, due to a printing error, this stamp is printed on yellow colored paper, not green the correct colour, only one example to date has been found, in prerecession days,1996 to be precise, the stamp was sold to an anonymous collector for $2,300,00 at auction, now let me check my collection, I may just have one!
Friday 26 June 2009
In The Previous Post I Mention High Speed Cars,
well now for something a little more sedate, stamp collecting,
to the uninitiated you would be known as a philatelists, as a kid I had a nice stamp collection, but boy did I miss out on this one! arguably the world's most expensive stamp, the Sweden Three Skilling Banco, Yellow Color Error, 1855, due to a printing error, this stamp is printed on yellow colored paper, not green the correct colour, only one example to date has been found, in prerecession days,1996 to be precise, the stamp was sold to an anonymous collector for $2,300,00 at auction, now let me check my collection, I may just have one!
to the uninitiated you would be known as a philatelists, as a kid I had a nice stamp collection, but boy did I miss out on this one! arguably the world's most expensive stamp, the Sweden Three Skilling Banco, Yellow Color Error, 1855, due to a printing error, this stamp is printed on yellow colored paper, not green the correct colour, only one example to date has been found, in prerecession days,1996 to be precise, the stamp was sold to an anonymous collector for $2,300,00 at auction, now let me check my collection, I may just have one!
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