Show WORLDS WORLD'S RAREST STAMP The most valuable bit paper of paper in in the world today was only ti orth one cent m in 1856 when It was printed as one of a small issue of postage stamps by BrItish GUIana m in South America The colony had run out of 1 regular stamps furnished by the British government and printed a small number for use untIl a new supply supply ply arrived Only one stamp of that issue IS now known to exist and It is ned o by the wIdow of the late Arthur M 1 Hind of UtIca N Y who accumulated the most valuable collection of stamps ever known Hind paid for it m in 1922 and It IS now valued at The stamp was fIrst identifIed as a rarIty in III 1873 when a 14 year old old ear boy found It on an old family letter and sold It for six a collection which brought him a collection which him It next passed into the hands of Count Ferrari Europe s greatest collector who paId for When his collection as is as sold Hind bought the GUIana stamp for the breaking record puce price mentioned and offered to gIve it as a present to King Gearge V of Great Britain who IS an enthusIastic stamp collector but the king could not see his way to accept it A small pal part t of the Hind collectIon was sold at auction In London recently when less than a dozen of the rarest stamps brought a total of m in one days day's sale Other portIons of the collectIon including the BrItish Guiana stamp rat rarest est of all will be offered for sale shortly by Hinds Hind's wIdow rho ho by the way is now Mrs Irs Pascal Costa Scala she hav- hav having having ing been married a few months ago to a salesman who met her when he called to sell a monument for her former husbands husband's grave |