It Is Up For Sale Again,

or I should say it has just been sold again, the worlds most expensive stamp, I have featured it before on the blog, was sold at auction in Geneva to an international consortium Saturday, auctioneers said, one of the rarest known stamps, the "Treskilling Yellow" -- or three-shilling stamp -- was issued by mistake during a print run of eight-skilling stamps, which are yellow, the three-skilling was normally green, but now the unknown bit, stamp auctioneers David Feldman did not disclose the identity of the buyers, nor the price paid this time round, last time in 1996, it fetched 2.875 million Swiss francs (3.6 millions d'euros, 4.5 million dollars) at auction, they did say however that the stamp remained the world's most expensive, "The consortium members bought the stamp after deeming that it was a solid investment in these times of crisis," they added in a statement, this one-of-its-kind issue was printed in Sweden in 1857, so if I was in Sweden, I would be upstairs in the attic looking at Grandads letters and the stamps on them, you never know!