Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — From Five Cents to $325. [ARTICLE]

From Five Cents to $325.

A five-eent stamp was sold in New York the other day for $325, and it had been cancelled at that. It was the New Haven tive-cent stamp of 1845, and had been cut from the envelope, which impaired its value. Aside from its actual value, the stamp has an interesting history. It was sent by Mr. Depew to his family in Peekskill and passed into the hands of Mrs. Duval, wife of Mr. Lepew’s secretary, about ten years later. Her son sold it to Scott & Co., from whom Mr. Mayer bought it. . Mr. Scott got it back last night for $325. —[Picayune.