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Article: COLLECTING: Putting it philately, the price of old stamps is travelling In for a Penny Black, in for thousands of pounds - why knowledgeable investors are licking their lips
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2004
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One of the most impressive stamp collections in the country is
expected to fetch as much as pounds 11m when it is auctioned at
Sotheby's next month.
The collection, owned by the late Sir Gawaine Baillie, specialises
in Britain and the British Empire. It includes some highly sought-
after items, such as a block of four 1840 2d blue plate stamps,
estimated at pounds 45,000 to pounds 50,000, and the 1880s 2s brown
in a unique pane of 20, estimated at pounds 200,000 to pounds
250,000.
This sale, which includes items not seen by the public for around
half a century, provides yet another example of the astonishing rise
in value of stamps in recent years. Stanley Gibbons, which sells and
buys ...