Tongan Stamp
p. 115 · Read in the full issue
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A London expert in February claimed that a mistake in the overprinting of a sheet of Tongan stamps put the value of the sheet at £lO,OOO.
The stamps were issued in Tonga only on February 7. They were produced to mark the cen tenary of Tongan emancipation, and the Tongan Government printer overprinted the stamps, “1862 Tauatinana Emancipa tion 1962”. On the valuable sheet this overprint was inverted.
The sheet contained 60 51stamps.
The London expert is Mr. F.
Wall, of Stanley Gibbons Ltd.
The same London report said that even without the error the stamps now had a market value of 50/- each.