There was one stamp that had been waiting to find me for years. I had a charity box that I bought which could be a hit or miss. I opened one of the albums and there it was on the first page, a complete set of navigators. Many times I would find this set and always the last one was missing. These were the predecimal variety and there it was, a £2 King, worth around $90 at the moment. There are about 180 different designs in the 415 Australian predecimal stamps ever released and now I have at least one of every design. It was the last predecimal stamp that I could realistically expect to find just floating around. The other 20 or so variations I do not have are worth $1,000s for each one. As for King, he was an explorer, one of Australia's first beach combers. He sailed all around Australia, hugging the coast on four different explorations.
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