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inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world

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An edition of The one-cent magenta (2017)

The one-cent magenta

inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world

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"When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby's for nearly $9.5 million, the largest amount ever paid for a postage stamp at auction. Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the one-cent magenta in the years in between, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect"--

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Algonquin Books
Language
English
Pages
276

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Subjects
Rare postage stamps, Stamp collectors, Stamp collecting, Biography, History, Postage stamps, collectors and collecting, New York Times reviewed
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Guyana

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The one-cent magenta: inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world
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Table of Contents

Stamp World
Travels with David
One cent (1856 : printed, sold, and forgotten)
Six shillings (1873 : found by a twelve-year-old)
£120 (1878 : Glasgow and London)
£150 (1878 : the man in the yachting cap)
$32,500 (1922 : the plutocrat with the cigar)
$40,000 (1940 : the angry widow, Macy's, and the other plutocrat)
$286,000 (1970 : the Wilkes-Barre eight)
$935,000 (1980 : "the man showed up")
$9.5 million (2014 : "I expected to see magenta, and I saw magenta").

Edition Notes

"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-276).

Other Titles
1 cent magenta, Inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world

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Dewey Decimal Class
769.569881
Library of Congress
HE6184.R3 B37 2017, HE6184.R3B37 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
276 pages
Number of pages
276

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OL27230092M
ISBN 10
1616205180
ISBN 13
9781616205188
LCCN
2016038074
OCLC/WorldCat
953707635
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01JKHTMZM

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