Amsterdam, Jan, 30.
Another specimen of the world-famous exceedingly rare yellow Mauritius one penny stamp has just been discovered by accident at Nijkerk where a local butcher for a few guilders bought an old picture representing a horse and a cart made by gumming on a plate obliterated postage stamps of various colours.
On examining the picture more closely, the purchaser to his utter amazement discovered that in the part of the picture representing the horse there was a genuine yellow one penny. Mauritius, the stamp most coveted by collectors all over the world. The lucky finder had no difficulty in selling the stamp in Amsterdam for 8,000
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