"“The owner was even afraid of handling it,” Mr. Lyons said. “He asked me to come and get it. I said, ‘Put it in a FedEx envelope and send it to me.’ He said, ‘I’m not doing that.’”"<p>I cant believe he even asked him to do this. Placing a stamp worth anywhere from $300,000 to $1,300,000 into a FexEx envelope? The risk of loss, damage or theft would have been too high.
"The dealer he sold them to quickly resold them, for $20,000, but not before writing little numbers on the back of each stamp. The number “49” was visible on the stamp in the cellphone photo."<p>Hah what a great story, I love how the small act of numbering each of the 100 on the sheet by a stamp dealer in 1918 has contributed so much to tracking the stamps
Collecting pricey stamps these days is a huge problem because the fakes are so good.<p>But with the Jennys being numbered and so valuable, it'd be pretty hard to fake them.