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Stamp collecting is a popular hobby around the world. It's also a huge business for stamp
dealers who buy and sell rare stamps for terrific sums of money. Some stamps
millions of dollars, such as the rarest and most precious one of all, the British Guiana 1c Magenta
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from 1856.
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This stamp was once one of 5,000, but today, it's the only survivor of its batch. Before it was
traded back and forth for cash, it was used for a newspaper's 12 On it, a sailing ship is printed
on special magenta paper. The stamp measur millimeters, it weighs almost nothing and is the world's
most valuable item by weight. At its last sale, it went for US$8.3 million.
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The new owner, a London stamp dealing company called Stanley Gibbons, will display the 1c
Magenta in an air-free case to 14 further decay. The company plans to make it possible for
even ordinary stamp lovers to own a bit of their hobby's biggest prize. 15
someone else, it will let people buy shares in it for affordable prices.
selling the stamp to
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