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A rare postage stamp printed in British Guiana in 1856 and most recently owned by a du Pont heir convicted of murder is expected to fetch a record price of $10 million to $20 million at a New York ...
The British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, described as the most famous and valuable stamp in the world, is expected to sell for up to $15 million – more than a billion times its original value – on ...
The British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta begins its journey in a young Scottish boy's collection and passes through the hands of a delusional killer. It was auctioned Tuesday for $9.5 million.
British Guiana, which has towns with nice names such as Paradise, Better Hope, and Bachelor’s Adventure, has a population of 658,000. Of these, 330,000 are East Indians ...
British Guiana is remembered for issuing a stamp that became the most valuable in the world, the one-cent Magenta of 1856. The last time the Magenta came on the market, in 1990, it was auctioned ...
When British Guiana's far-leftist Premier Cheddi Jagan called on President Kennedy last fall, asking for $60 million he didn't get, he represented himself as a neutralist-type democrat who ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British Guiana One-Cent Magenta postage stamp from 1856, the only one of its kind to still exist, sold for record $9.5 million at Sotheby's on Tuesday.
In the same speech, he makes the outrageous claim that “Indians and their acolytes own 97 per cent of economy.” He then drew reference to the British Guiana Colonization Scheme of 1919 as ...
At $8.3m (£6.2m), never had so much been spent on so little. The tiny stamp - the British Guiana 1c Magenta to the cognoscenti - is, gram for gram, thought to be the most valuable man-made ...
British Guiana is the third largest producer of this ore in the free world, accounting for one tenth of the total output. Annual production is slightly below 2.5 million long tons; ...