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This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$ 9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [ 1][ 2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [ note 1 ...
The two priciest cards are baseball cards, followed by three basketball cards . The first sports card to sell for one million dollars was a T206 Honus Wagner which went for $1,265,000 at auction in 2000 (equivalent to $2,238,133 in 2023). [ 1] As of May 2020, the industry brings in over one billion dollars annually for manufacturers and retailers.
One stamp was issued on this occasion; Value: 50p; Completion of Multan Thermal Power Station – 25 December 1963 One stamp was issued on this occasion; Value: 13p; 1963–1968 Eleven stamps already issued now printed on watermarked paper Seven stamps were issued on this occasion; Values: Rs.1, Rs.1.25, Rs.2, Rs.5, Rs.10, Rs.15, Rs.25
The 5-cent Franklin and the 10-cent Washington postage stamps issued in 1847 were the first postage stamps issued and authorized for nationwide postal duty by the U.S. Post Office. The firm of Rawdon, Wright, Hatch, and Edson of New York City were given a four-year contract to print the first U.S. postage stamps in 1847.
The first postage stamp cancellation devices were put into use the same day. [3] The first issue was a set of provisional overprinted definitive stamps and a commemorative set of three stamps. [4] [5] [6] Tuvalu became fully independent within the Commonwealth on 1 October 1978.
The cards included Mickey Mantle's first Topps card, the most valuable card of the modern era. No one at the time, of course, knew the collector's value the cards would one day attain. On August 28, 2022, the Mickey Mantle baseball card (Topps; #311; SGC MT 9.5) was sold for $12.600 million. [13]
A 1923 3 annas stamp of Iraq, designed by Marjorie Maynard, depicting the ruins of the Kasra arch in Ctesiphon. The postal service of Iraq proper began with the British mandate granted by the League of Nations in 1920. The first stamps of Iraq were a definitive series that appeared in 1923; the set of 12 included eight different designs ...
Jordan provided the postal stamps for the West Bank (incl. East Jerusalem) between 1948 and 1967. Prior to the incorporation of the West Bank into Jordan in 1950, Jordanian stamps overprinted " Palestine " in Arabic and English were issued from 1948 until April 1950. [ 9] After 1950, stamps of Jordan were used in the West Bank until it was ...