The 1922-27, £25 Red & Black was sold by Robert A Siegel in 2014 for £28,792. Add in the condition of this example, and it makes for a George V gem that would take pride of place in any album. That means the number of stamps issued with this denomination would have been far lower than lesser values, and so today naturally attract higher sale prices at auctions. In truth, stamps with this very high value wouldn't have been used for postage, but rather revenue or tax purposes. The crisp, beautiful Kenya and Uganda red and black stamp shown below was expensive the moment it left the printers in the 1920s, with a denomination of £25, and almost a century later it sold for over 1,000 times its original value. In this round-up, our roving stamp detective picks ten items that all KGV collectors would surely add to their albums… Ten King George V stamps we'd love to own Britain’s early stamp issues are the envy of the world, we invented the postage stamp after all, and the designs issued during the reign of King George V, the ‘Collector King’ himself, rank amongst the finest GB stamps money can buy.
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