That would make it the most valuable human artefact (by weight) ever sold, says the auction house. Why have prices for very rare stamps risen so high? The broad reason is that number of extremely wealthy people in the world has soared in recent years. The Hurun Global Rich List, ...
Rare stamps on display; Most valuable American stamp is featured at the Washington showASSOCIATED PRESS
showing marks of past owners. Left: Bookplate from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Right: Stamps from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (top right), the Lands, Parks and Forests Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources (blue stamps at middle and ...
Collectors of stamps from the British West Indies will find plenty to choose from in our 5th December auction. The auction includes a valuable collection broken into smaller country collections or items and with a total estimate of around £30,000. Some choice items from the auction are shown...
Benkinsop’s Academy for the Daughters of Gentlefolk prided itself that any girl coming from its hallowed portals was a valuable and talented member of society – underground society that is. For although the Prospectus included Wise Shopping, Household Hints and Folk Dancing classes, had you inve...
The company has prepared securities to the value of millions and millions of dollars, and bank-notes innumerable, also postage-stamps, bonds, stocks, diplomas, drafts, etc., not only for the Government and financial institutions of the United States, but also for Canada and the West Indies, ...
In addition, Swammerdam performed valuable investigations of crustaceans, mollusks and frogs, and was the first to prove experimentally that muscles do not increase in bulk when contracted via nerve stimulation. The Biblia natura, Swammerdam's major work, was published fifty-seven years after his...
The ornithological specimens Ashton sent to Anna provided a valuable source of information to Thomas Pen- nant when he was writing his Arctic Zoology (1784-85), as he acknowledged in the preface to that work: To the rich museum of American Birds, preserved by Mrs.Anna Blackburn, of Orford,...
CAPITAL OAK AND OTIIBU TIMBER. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, At the Wynnstay Axi^ s Inn, in Oswestry, some- time in the Month of January next ( Particulars of which will appear in future Papers): C4UNDKY LOTS of very valuable OAK, ASH, and other TIMBER, now stand- ing in Coppices at...
Having failed in these enterprises, they assaulted a lime barge, which had taken in a valuable cargo of goods, and lay at anchor just above the bridge, in hopes of find- ing her unguarded, but they were mistaken, for a blunderbus was fired among them, and it is probable not without ...