Food for thought, your opinions please

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Posted By: Rich Klein

1) Being a New York area transplant, I enjoyed the discourse immensely on the best places to eat -- I could have done without the name calling or drama tho

2) Secondly, and the thrust to my question -- the most expensive and desirable stamp in the world is a postally-used; dirty and "cut" stamp which is considered to be unique. This stamp is worth approximately as much as the Wagner PSA 8 card.

So, my question is, considering the shape of the stamp -- would you collect it -- if so, why -- if not -- why not?

Oh and a special favor -- let's do this without resorting to name calling --

Here is a link to a web piece about that stamp

http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter110.html


Regards
Rich

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Posted By: barrysloate

Rich- it is in fact the world's most famous stamp, and likely most valuable, and as I recall was actually an attic find. I would certainly collect it for its value, but because it is worth in the millions, probably soon sell it. I never realized it was such a bright red color- it was always described as magenta.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

RICH

When I was a kid, I collected stamps before I collected BB cards. And, this 1856 British
Guiana stamp was well known to all us stamp collectors back then. I still have my 1950
Scott's Stamp Catalogue and in it, this stamp was valued at $50,000. And, 50K was an
awful lot of money back then.

This stamp is the "T206 Honus Wagner" of the worldwide stamp collecting hobby, back
then, and still now. Of course, now it is worth in the millions of $$.

But, I would rather have the 24-cent Inverted Jenny US Air Mail stamp.

TED Z

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Posted By: Mike

Ted, wasn't the 24-cent Inverted Jenny US Air Mail stamp the one Richard Pryor mailed in Brewster's Millions?

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Posted By: joe brennan

rich, Thanks for the article. I always enjoy expanding my knowledge into subjects I have no experience in. I watch the antique roadshow religiously and am always amazed at the price of some pieces. Some of the antiques are so ugly, (to me anyways, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder) that I find myself saying if I owned it I would sell it. Or as with Tiffany Lamps some valued in the $225K range, I couldn't part with it if I owned it. Unfortunately with this stamp I would sell it and retire. Thanks for the stamp lesson. Joe

People said it was a million dollar wound. But the government must keep that money, cause I ain't never seen a penny of it.