Where: Postal Museum
When: closing September 4, 2018
There's nothing I like better than seeing something that's the biggest, or smallest or oldest of its kind. The stamp I saw this week is the rarest one in the world, so you know I was happy to trek over to Union Station to see it.
It's a British stamp from 1856; they issued very few of them, and there's only this one left. It's changed hands several times and lives in a bank vault most of the time now. This is its longest visit and most publicly accessible display ever.
It's upstairs in the stamp gallery in a box towards the back corner. You have to push a button to turn on a light to see it, and even then, it's pretty dimly lit.
it occurs to me the curators would have been well served to pay a visit to the Sackler to see how to show priceless objects really well. I was happy to have had the opportunity to see this item, but felt that a bit more pomp and circumstance would have been appropriate.
Verdict: It's the rarest stamp in the world! Go see it.
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