From the above website: Thursday, January 10, 2013 Scott 255 - 5¢ Grant - Brown Look at this beauty~ $135.00 USD Scott 255 - 5¢ Grant - Brown - 30,688,840 issued sometime on or after 9/28/1894 - EDU: 10/23/1894 I have two Mint and one used in my inventory... need one more used for a full house!
I will get an image posted soon... I am going to get one of the DM's I keep talking about... James made me jealous...!! You can refer to the below for a web image and a little background... mine is a pure MNH with original gum... Post Office fresh and perfectly centered. http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12079 Another link shows this... Newfoundland – 1932 - Unissued stamp An unissued stamp, related to the First Transatlantic Air Mail and Passenger Flight, is interesting to note. In 1932, the government of Newfoundland had the Bureau of Engraving of Minneapolis, Minn., produce 400,000 of the stamp under a contract with Aerial World Tours of Minneapolis. The tour company was to sell the stamps to raise money for the flight and took a lot of 25,000 stamps to sell. The stamps would be good for airmail postage on the flight. The company procured a Sikorsky seaplane and stationed it on Wayzata Bay in Lake Minnetonka, but it was unable to raise enough money to make the flight. On 10 September 1932, Newfoundland cancelled the contract and ordered the bank holding the balance of the 375,000 stamps to destroy them.
Hello SATX, excellent website link, plenty of information. As for the stamp, I would say well worth keeping. Regards, James.
Nice airmail stamp and the history behind it. I do have several Airmail stamps and all are worth keeping of course.
You are most definitely welcome... now that I have friends that appreciate fine art, I don't mind sharing information of my groupings. As I said earlier: I will soon get a DM and post pictures as desired.
oh wow that is a lot of money for a stamp! Hopefully you can hold onto it for as long as you can it might go up in a couple more years. I love the museums that have the glass cases with the rare stamps in it but unfortunately we have none of that here, except Mandela stamps which seem to be losing their popularity.
