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    Collecting on the edge

    Jun 12, 2020 4 minutes

    London’s Postal Museum holds what is probably the only complete 240-stamp sheet of Penny Blacks still in existence; the last of the 286,700 sheets printed in 1840 before the switch to the Penny Red-Brown at the end of that year. We can feast our eyes on the famous sheet during the museum’s opening times; but any wild fantasies about owning even half a sheet of those iconic stamps will have wait until after you have successfully picked at least five winning balls in the National Lottery.

    Here we offer a selection of recent auction results as a taste of the market and a sense of the deep pockets required by anyone bidding for multiples:

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