British Guiana 1c magenta is regarded by many philatelists as the world's most famous rare stamp. It was issued in limited numbers in British Guiana (now...

best-known stamps are: Penny Black (Great Britain) Treskilling Yellow (Sweden) Bull's Eye (Brazil) British Guiana 1c magenta Mauritius "Post Office" Inverted Jenny...

unique British Guiana 1c magenta from 1856, which sold in 1980 for close to $1 million. In June 2014 the 1856 British Guiana one-cent magenta stamp was...

British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has...

child, anonymously purchased the "world's most famous stamp", the British Guiana 1c magenta at a Sotheby's auction in New York for $9.48M, including buyer's...

record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted...

unique pieces. Of major items, only the British Guiana 1c magenta is missing from the collection of British Imperial stamps. In 2020, the value of the...

handled some of the greatest rarities in philately such as the British Guiana 1c magenta of 1856 and the block of four of the 1869 24c United States stamps...

$935,000 for one of the rarest stamps in the world, the British Guiana 1856 1c black on magenta. After his death, this stamp was sold at auction for $9...

on differently-colored papers; the most famous example is the British Guiana 1c magenta. Initially, countries typically made a random choice of colors...