Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Most Expensive Stamp - world record
set byThe Treskilling Yellow
LONDON, UK-- Weighing just 0.03 grams, the tiny
Treskilling Yellow was first issued in Sweden in
1855 and used in 1857 to mail a letter, is worth $7.4 million
, setting the world record for the Most
Expensive Stamp.
Tipping the scales at just 0.03 grams, The
World's
Most Expensive Stampis thought to be also the most valuable thing on the planet
by weight.
Its rarity is augmented by the fact that
it was the only one in the batch to printed in yellow by mistake,
when it should have been printed in green.
The
World's
Most Expensive Stamp
only survives today thanks to a 14-year-old Swedish schoolboy
who rescued it from his grandmother's rubbish bin in 1885
and sold it onto a dealer for the lowly price of seven Kroner
The stamp has changed hands many times and
each time has set a record price.
In 2001 a Danish auctioneer, Thomas Høiland,
told the Virtual Stamp Club os its value.
"There was hot competition when it was sold
last time. People collecting stamps like to have rare things,
like to have special things. I think maybe it's because it's
been known for so many years, it's special," The Telegraph
quoted Thomas Hoiland, as saying.
He said: "There was hot competition when
it was sold last time. People collecting stamps like to have
rare things, like to have special things. I think maybe it's
because it's been known for so many years, it's special."