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S&H Green Stamps was a line of trading stamps popular in the United States from 1896 until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson.
This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1] [2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023.
In the early 1960s, the S&H Green Stamps company boasted that it printed more stamps annually than the number of postage stamps printed by the US government. [6] In 1968 it was reported that more than $900 million in stamps were sold in the United States.
The first Mauritius edition was printed with 500 red and 500 blue stamps, each worth one penny. ... Are You Concerned About the Safety of Your Money ... For a few years during the 1860s, stamps ...
Only one copy is known to exist, discovered by a 12-year-old Scottish boy in 1873. It sold for a mind-boggling $9.5 million in 2014. In hopes of deterring counterfeits, the stamp carries the ...
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In 1951, it was one of the first grocery chains in the country to issue the well-known S&H Green Trading Stamps. [4] In the fall of 1973, Central Market changed its operating strategy. The chain dropped Green Stamps, slashed prices and, to reflect this new strategy, it re-branded to the name "Price Chopper."
Penny Black – World's first postage stamp; Penny Blue – Trial printings from a penny black plate; Two pence blue – Issued for second rate step, at the same time as Penny Black