Made in limited quantities in 1856 for use on local newspapers, there is only one known specimen to still exist. It features a ship, printed in black ink on magenta colored paper, along with the Latin motto "Damus Petimus Que Vicissim" or, translated, "We give and expect in return". The stamp's country of issue and value surround the ship design. [p]This specimen was found in 1873, by then 12-year-old Vernon Vaughan in the Guyanese town of Demerara. He sold the stamp for two shillings, the equivalent of no more than $2.50. The current owner of the stamp, who is serving a thirty-year jail sentence, purchased it in 1980 for the sum of $935,000.
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