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World's rarest stamp bought for one cent at British colony sells for £5.6MILLION at auction
Charlotte Wareing
mirror.co.uk
The world's rarest stamp has sold at auction for a record-breaking $9.5million (£5.6million).
Murderer John du Pont once owned the collectible which measures just one inch wide.
The sale makes the one cent stamp, now worth the equivalent of £5.6million, the most expensive stamp to ever be sold - at almost a billion times its face value.
It was originally created by the postmaster of British Guiana, once a British colony in South America, back in 1856 when a shipment of stamps was delayed from London.
At the time it was one of three to be created and is thought to be the only one left in circulation. British Guiana is now known as the independent nation of Guyana.
Over the years it has had a number of owners, the last being John du Pont, heir to the du Pont chemical empire, who was convicted of murdering Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler David Schultz in 1997.
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