Rare British Guiana 1c Magenta stamp to go on display

An $8.3m stamp is returning to the UK for the first time in 143 years, after being sold at auction to a British rare stamp dealer.The dealer said that, gram for gram, the stamp is thought to be the most valuable man-made item in the world.

The stamp, printed on magenta paper and measuring 29 x 26mm, bears a three-masted ship and the colony's motto, "We give and expect in return". Once it arrived, the postmaster ordered them to be taken out of circulation - but one of the one cent stamps survived. On arriving at Heathrow Airport, it will be met by an armoured truck and will go on display at Stanley Gibbons' shop in London in a specially commissioned, zero-oxygen frame.Graham Shircore, chief executive of Stanley Gibbons, called it "the Holy Grail of philately".

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