RED LETTER DAY

Anonymous man posts rare find

AN extremely rare postage stamp dating from earlier this year is expected to make a six figure sum when it goes under the hammer at auction house Christobies later this week. That’s because the First Class Large Letter stamp, with a face value of £2.60, has been printed upside down! Over 20 million of the new stamps have been produced featuring the image of Charles since the new King came to the throne in 2023, but the fact that this one was printed upside down has made it a 1 in 20 million collector’s item. “It’s an unbelievable mistake for the printing house to make and I don’t know how on earth it happened,” said Anthony Blunt-Sharp, Christobies’ head of coins, medals and stamps. “But it means a nice payday for…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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