Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late to arrive in Minneapolis was Arthur Hind, Utica, N. Y. plush tycoon, owner of the "world's rarest stamp," the only known 1¢ British Guiana of 1856, for which he paid $32,500. philately's greatest price. Cut octagonally, magenta in color, not a particularly good specimen as stamps go, this unique scrap of paper was "discovered" in 1872, when it sold for six shillings...
...British Guiana, 1856, 1d magenta...
Back last week from St. Laurent de Maroni, France's penal colony in Guiana, came Commissioner Aldin Peyron, earnest head of the Salvation Army in France. In his little Paris office he addressed reporters...
...American Airways sent a survey plane from San Juan, Porto Rico, to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (on South America's north coast), by way of Guadeloupe (French possession), Martinique (French possession), Georgetown (British Guiana). That is the mail route which U. S. Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover last week authorized to go into operation next month...
...Garnett Day Expedition which returned in February with birds and mammals collected on Mt. Roraima in British Guiana, financed by Lee Garnett Day, importer of South American products, Manhattan...