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Article: Thieves steal pounds10,000 collection of stamps ; A collection of stamps worth about pounds10,000 has been stolen from a converted barn after thieves ripped the safe they were stored in from a wall.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- June 10, 2008
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A collection of stamps worth about pounds10,000 has been stolen
from a converted barn after thieves ripped the safe they were stored
in from a wall.
Three stamp albums containing 20 Penny Blacks, 23 2D stamps, or
Tuppenny blues, one pounds5 Orange stamp marked December 30 or 31,
1899, and three strips of Tuppenny Blue stamps with postage stamp
lines, were stolen from an office in the Goonhavern area, near
Truro, on Sunday.
A flat-screen computer monitor, a "substantial" amount of US
dollars and premium bonds were also taken, along with passports and
other personal documents.
The Penny Black, the world's first prepaid adhesive postage
stamp, was issued on May 6, 1840.
The Tuppenny Blue was ...