RARE SWEDISH STAMP
One of the rarest postage stamps in the world, a Swedish 3s which through some mistake in printing, is yelloAv instead of green, has been sold by a Stockholm collector to a Gothenburg collector for £2,090. More than 40 years ago a schoolboy found this stamp among some old letters belonging to his grandmother. lie sold it to a dealer in Stockholm for Ss. From there it went to Vienna. -Paris, and to tlie national rost museum in Germany, and ultimately was sold back to a Swedish collector. It is hoped that it will finally go to the museum of the Swedish Government Post Office, which possesses one of the most valuable collections in the world.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 13
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119RARE SWEDISH STAMP Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 13
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