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S&H Green Stamps Booklet covers. 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.
S&H Green Stamps - US company that produced trading stamps. Thomas Sperry - co-founder of S&H Green Stamps. Two Guys - a chain of stores that issued its own trading stamps program. Federal Trade Commission v. Sperry & Hutchinson Trading Stamp Co. Canadian Tire money - a similar system at Canadian Tire stores in Canada, using scrip instead of ...
Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of Warren Buffett, began investing in Blue Chip Stamps in 1970. At year-end 1972 it owned 19%, at year-end 1973 22.5%. [2] Berkshire's investment in Blue Chip went from 36.5 percent in 1977 to 60 percent in 1979 and finally merged in a stock swap in 1983. [3]
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William S. Beinecke [8] was the son of Frederick W. Beinecke and Carrie Regina (Sperry) Beinecke (the daughter of William Miller Sperry) and lived in Cranford, New Jersey, until the age of 11.
Individuals accumulated their war savings stamps in various collection booklets provided with the purchase of a stamp. Filled collection booklets could later be used to purchase Series E war bonds. For example, a full 25-cent booklet contained 75 stamps and was worth $18.75, which was the initial price of a $25 war bond.