ON JUNE 17th the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp, the only surviving example of a penny issue printed in the South American British colony in 1856, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s, a large auction house, in New York. Each of the three times it has previously been sold at...
A Stamp, Tiny and Rare, Fulfills a Boyhood Dream.The article reports on the fulfillment felt by Stuart Weitzman, former stamp collector and shoe designer, when he bought the One-Cent Magenta stamp for $9.5 million from British Guiana.BARRON...
Pre-Stamp Penny Blacks 1840-1902 Victoria 1902-1911 Edward VII 1911-1937 George V 1936 Edward VIII 1937-1952 George VI 1952+ Elizabeth II GB Islands GB Regions First Day Covers Worldwide Worldwide Collections / Accumulations K K.U.T./British East Africa ...
Pre-Stamp Penny Blacks 1840-1902 Victoria 1902-1911 Edward VII 1911-1937 George V 1936 Edward VIII 1937-1952 George VI 1952+ Elizabeth II GB Islands GB Regions First Day Covers Worldwide Worldwide Collections / Accumulations K K.U.T./British East Africa ...
it is still the basis for the study of the flora of the Guiana region" (Stafleu. Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p. 283). "It is clear that Fusée Aublet should be considered one of the 'founding fathers' of neotropical ethnobotany. Although most botanists think of his 'Histoire des Plantes...
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