Worth over 12 million dollars! has led to a huge interest in stamp collecting. The only word legible is GUIANA at the bottom of the stamp. Little of the text is readable as there is also a postmark obscuring the old text. It is burgundy in color in a hexagon shape. Text: 'The 1856 One Cent British Guiana' appears with an image of that stamp underneath. The text THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE STAMP is shown Text "SOLD FOR OVER 1.5 MILLION" is stamped over the stamp.Ī large art-deco styled banner appears on screen. Which sold in 2016 for over one and a half million dollars! In the middle is a blue line drawing of a plane displayed upside down. One the bottom right and left of the stamp is a small dark red circle with 24. Inside is a dark red line engraving with the words US POSTAGE and CENTS. It is a small almost square perforated stamp with a white border. The camera pans right to show an image of the "Inverted" Jenny stamp. Like the famous American stamp called the US Inverted Jenny from 1918,Ĭamera zooms down the page to a headline that reads "US Inverted Jenny" "Worth more than gold" Video now shows the words "Valuable Stamps" appearing letter by letter on a white page Kids would collect stamps as a hobby, asking their family and friends to save stamps from letters and envelopes they received. The girl again points to one particular stamp and the boy looks over at it. They are each looking through their own books of stamps. ![]() She leafs through a few more pages of the book.Ĭut to the two children now sitting at a table inside an old house. Zoom in to the two children as the girl points to something in the open book. The girl opens up her book of stamps to show the boyĪ couple of decades after stamps were first issued in 1840. A boy, taller than the girl, and dressed in clothes also of the time, walks towards the girl.Īustralians have been collecting stamps for over 150 years, The building behind the girl has a Telegraph sign on it. The scene is reminiscent of an old western movie set. Music played mostly on fiddlers starts in the background.Ī young girl dressed in clothes from the 1800's is standing in the middle of a dirt road with an old two-story building made entirely of wood.
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