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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 2024.
With its sale in June 2014 to Stuart Weitzman for $9,480,000, [1] [2] the 1c magenta has broken the world record for a single stamp auction price a total of four times. [7] The 2014 auction also made it the most expensive item, by weight and size, ever sold in history. [7]
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 most expensive stamps in the world sell for millions of dollars, and many others routinely command five- and six-figure sums. ... The other set a record for U.S. stamp sale prices when the ...
The British Guiana 1c magenta is one of the rarest, and most valuable, stamps in the world. Sold in June 2014 at Sotheby's for $9.48 million. Philatelic investment is investment in collectible postage stamps for the purpose of realizing a profit. Philatelic investment was popular during the 1970s but then fell out of favour following a ...
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 ...
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The Alexandria "Blue Boy" is a rare Postmasters' Provisionals stamp produced in Alexandria, Virginia (then part of the District of Columbia) in 1847. [2] [3] There are seven known examples of Alexandria provisionals, however, the Blue Boy is the only specimen printed on blue paper. [4] The other six are printed on buff paper. [5]