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Alexandria "Blue Boy" cover United States: 1847 Unique June 22, 2019: Anonymous Anonymous H.R. Harmer, New York [7] $1,314,000 $900,000 B Grill: United States: 1867-8 4 known October 28, 2008: The Perry Hansen Collection of U.S. Stamps and Covers Anonymous Robert A. Siegel, New York [31] $1,309,000 $970,000 Red Revenue: Qing China: 1897 32 ...
Cover illustration for Randolph Caldecott's picture book Sing a Song for Sixpence (1880) The sixpence also features in other works of British popular culture and literature. It appears in the title of the writer W. Somerset Maugham 's 1919 novel, The Moon and Sixpence , and appears in both the title and as a plot device in Michael Paraskos 's ...
Within two weeks of Decimal Day, the old penny (1d) and old threepence (3d) coins had left circulation, and old sixpences had become somewhat rare. [18] On 31 August 1971, the 1/2d, 1d and 3d were officially withdrawn from circulation, ending the transition period to decimal currency. [19]
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
The 1916, 1917, 1912, 1920, 1914 and 1911 sixpences are also rare, and 1935 and 1924 coins are scarce. [8] Uncirculated: Refers to an uncirculated coin as one that has a mint-fresh lustre with a clear detail of the heads of the emu and kangaroo. Magnification should also show no blemishes, and the feathers of the emu should show no trace of ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919.It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.
A treasure binding or jewelled bookbinding is a luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or silver, jewels, or ivory, perhaps in addition to more usual bookbinding material for book covers such as leather, velvet, or other cloth. [1]