Wednesday 16 January 2008

MALAYSIA - 1967 no price

Malaysia 15 cent, 1967 Stamp. Pahang without price




This is the only stamp in the world or its kind. The stamp is attached on an envelope of THE CHARTERED BANK, currently known as Standard Chartered Bank, and it is kept in the bank for safe keeping for over 30 years in good condition. It has a potrait of the late Sultan Pahang, Malaysia. This stamp is also used during International Tourist Year.

Story behind the stamp :
100 stamps was printed on a whole sheet, this masterpiece was the only one accidently sold, and the rest of the stamps was not sold because of the price not printed and destroyed, because it is just impossible to sell a stamps without a price value. When the stamp was printed, the printer did not see it, main post office didnt see it, then it was distributed to district post office, there too did not see it. The postal clerk selling the stamp too also did not noticed it. The buyer of the stamp The Standard and Chartered Bank representative too miss it, posted, finally the postman who delivered the stamp on the envelope also did not observed it
estimate price RM 5.000.000 ( write in their newspaper :) )

Monday 14 January 2008

US - The Pan-Am Inverted

US - Pan American Inverted Issue, C294a, C295a, C296a, 1901

294 a 294




295a 295




296a 296


there are 250 of the 1¢ stamp, and 150 of the 2¢ stamp, 250-300 of the 4¢ stamp, had been found, most with "Specimen" overprint, but some without. These were supposed to be for postal archives, as "reference copies".
Currently the three Pan-Am Inverts shown below catalog $10,000, $37,000, and $17,000 respectively.

US - 1 cent Z Grill


US - 1¢ Z Grill, 85A, 1867 ( the america's rarest stamp )


GRILL: Rows of pyramid-shaped embossing, impressed into the back of certain stamps. Grills broke stamp fibers, letting cancellation ink sink in, making re-use impossible

Only two One-Cent Z Grill stamps are known to exist

Currently valued at $2.5 million, make it the most expensive stamp in USA.

Sunday 13 January 2008

US - Inverted Jenny

US - Inverted Jenny ( C3a, 1918 )


C3a- Inverted Jenny



C3a - a block of Inverted jenny


C3- the Jenny




Only one sheet or 100 Inverted Jenny. William T. Robey purchased at a Washington, D.C., post office on May 14, 1918, the first day of sale. The other eight sheets undistributed then distroyed. He sell this sheet to Eugene Klein for $15.000. The postal clerk who sold Robey didnt know the plane is inverted cause he never saw a plane before.
Klein sold it to a millionaire Colonel Edward H.R. Green for $20,000. Colonel Green divided the sheet and kept four blocks and a single for himself, total 41 gems.