I have been working my way thru a stack of 58 pages of hinged stamps that came from a dealer. If a dealer is still sticking stamps to a sheet with hinges then you know he has been retired for at least 50 yar and these pages have been sitting around for that long as well. These are high quality stamps and mostly British Empire. It has taken me about 8 weeks but I was coming to the end of this lot with only a few pages to go and there it was in the middle of the page, not a penny black, but a Penny Brown. This is the second oldest stamp in the world, being printed in 1841, one year after the penny blacks. This stamp is not all that rare, as there are a few around but it is old and worth $62. I selected around 1000 of the 3000 stamps available for inclusion in my collection and a large proportion were printed in the 1800's and all of them expensive.
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