The one-cent magenta : inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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".