Show RAREST STAMP tp IN ly WORLD Pride e of ot place unon among the many valuable valuable able ble an and unique specimens belongs to a singularly unpretentious and sorry loro look look- I lag ng stem stamp issued in the colony of ot Guiana Guiana- In In 2856 1856 for or provisional Us use pen pend pending ending end end- ing the arrival of ot a fresh consignment of ot the regular postage stamps from Eng Eng- England land and writes writes D. D B. B Armstrong In the April APri St Strand nd It It Iv Is le of the denomination one cent the design being crud crudely I sot set up from ordinary printers printer's t type Pe at the office of ot the Official OWeSa Gazette with the central device of a sailing ship taken from Crom the heading leading to the shipping announcements announcement In n the tM paper The single known copy of ot this rarity was U discovered er b by a young collector In Inthe Inthe the he colony among anona some family fl naP rs stored away Iway In an attic Knowing ing noth nothing ing of ot Its scarcity and not being favorably favorably favor favor- ably Impressed by Its ite appearance he al alIt sold said It to another r collector for tor a trifling sum the purchaser also being Ignorant of ot his 1111 great bargain Ultimately ly R Jt found o nd Its way to Europe and now reposes in the collection n of M M. Philippic de la 18 Reno Reno- of ot Paris the distinguished owner of ot the worlds world's gr greatest stamp collection who purchased It many years year's ago ngo for an amount that has never been disclosed but Is believed ed to have t been at that period a a. record one Its Intrinsic value alue today In the very tery unlikely con contingency contingency of or Its ever coming Into in the he market i r r. r certainly In excess of or two tY thousand t pounds A rep report rt on this famous stamp tAmp b by a celebrated expert states that the the copy cop 1 is a a. poor one dark magenta m in color and somewhat ome t rubbed It Is initialed initiated E E. DW D. D W W. and dated April 1 1 the vear yar not being distinct enough to to be read Nevertheless N less len It t is th the rarest st tamp stamp In the world |