There are rare and valuable stamps in all postal systems of the world. Two of the best known of these are the Inverted Jenny, which was a printing error and the 1-cent Z grill stamp from the US postal system. Anyone who is a serious stamp collector will tell you that there are five most valuable stamps in the world and all are trying to have them in their collections. However, they are very rare and thus, very expensive. These valuable stamps are:
1. The Three -Shilling Banco from Sweden, which is yellow in color, was printed in 1855. This stamp is valuable because the yellow was a mistake in the color of the stamp. The yellow paper that was used in the printing was supposed to be for the 8-shilling stamp. The usual color for the 3-shilling stamp was green. Only one copy of this stamp has ever been found. This was in 1885, when a young Swedish boy was looking through his grandfather’s stamp collection. No other copies of the stamp have surfaced and this rare stamp was sold in 1996 for the stunning price of $2.3 million dollars to an anonymous collector.
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Many collections of postage stamps, which if properly treated would be valuable, are, instead, merely accumulations worth practically nothing because of improper handling.
Perhaps the greatest sin of mishandling a stamp is to handle it with your fingers. I cannot emphasize enough the most important point that stamps should never be handled except with a pair of fine stamp tongs. These are available in three main designs, all depending upon the shape of the points. The professional and dealer usually use tongs with fairly sharp points. They are used because these tongs can be used to roll a hinge off a stamp without tearing or thinning the stamp provided, of course, that the hinge used was one of the peelable varieties. Some of the older hinges were not peelable, and taking them off the stamp with a pair of tongs is merely inviting trouble.
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Getting the maximum amount of money for Stamps is the wish of every philatelist. It is usually possible to get maximum prices for your stamps if you follow certain rules. It is not difficult to follow these rules. However, remember that by following these or any other rules, you do not have a guarantee of a maximum price for your stamps. But, it will give you a guide line that if followed, may help you to get better value for
your stamps or collection than if you hadn’t followed the guidelines. The values of stamps are greatly dependent on who buys your stamps or stamps collection.
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The history of India’s postal system begins long before the introduction of postage stamps. The Atharvaveda records a messenger service. Systems for collecting information and revenue data from the provinces are mentioned in Chanakya’s Arthashastra (3rd century BC).
For centuries it was rare for messages to be carried by any means other than a relay of runners on foot. A runner ran from one village or relay post to the next, carrying the letters on a pole with a sharp point. His was a dangerous occupation: the relay of postal runners worked throughout the day and night, vulnerable to attacks by bandits and wild animals. Later Ramayana and Mahabharata, two of the greatest epic, mention of the transmission of messages.
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