I Have Been Bidding For A Few Stamps,

here is one that is coming up,

printed in India it is a four annas stamp, it was one of the first multi-coloured stamps in the world at the time, the outline was printed in red and the head of Queen Victoria was in blue and was added within the frame, but in Calcutta in 1854, the Queen's head was accidentally printed upside down on the stamp, the stamps were printed in 12 to a sheet and more than 206,000 stamps were produced, it is thought the error was made on three sheets,

David Parsons, a stamp specialist at Spink's, said: 'this is an incredibly rare stamp, with about 25 known examples in the world, collectors of stamps love inverted stamps because they are so startling', the question of course is how much? to add it to my collection, £50,000 - £70,000 is the experts expectation when Lot 87 comes up for auction at Spink's on January 23, and there was me thinking I would get change out of a tenner!