The One-Cent Magenta (Audiobook)

from wdwilson3

This delightful little book focuses on the British Guiana stamp that provides the title, the rarest stamp in the world. The handful of owners of the stamp are profiled, up to the current owner. Their motives (or eccentricities) provide the meat of the book. What does motivate men to covet what is...

from flhoosier

A wonderful book for stamp collectors of various ages and experience. Provides history of the stamp and the historical path it has taken. Well known collectors and previous owners are included. Very informative and should be considered the gift for any stamp collector.

from IsolaBlue

A crisp, short read, THE ONE-CENT MAGENTA is told by James Barron, a journalist, and seems more like a lengthy magazine article (think Vanity Fair quality) rather than a full-length book. Still, that is probably why most readers will start and finish this work. Because it reads at a good pace, on...

from RoseCityReader

The famous “one-cent magenta” is the last surviving example of a batch of provisional stamps printed in 1856 in British Guiana when a shipment of official stamps from London did not arrive. It is said to have had only nine owners from the time a 12-year-old boy discovered it in his uncle's papers...

from phillies

As a collector, in my case baseball cards, I was very interested in the motivations behind other collectors and this book covered this plus much more. The story of the stamp was fascinating and some of the more technical aspects of stamp collecting, such as how a stamps authenticity can be determ...