Famous And Not So Famous Stamp Collectors Of The World

Almost 2 years to the day, John E Dupont (owner of the world rarest stamp) died in jail

One interesting piece of news that will impact on the stamp market is the death in custody of John E. duPont, in latter 2010.

Mr duPont was the owner of the "World's Rarest Stamp" – the British Guiana 1856 1¢ Black on Magenta.

The stamp was purchased in 1980 at Robert. A. Siegel auctions in New York by John E. duPont, for $US935,000.

see this link for more on Dupont:
http://www.[Site blacklisted due to email spam (1)].com/snfebruary11.html

The article was great and sounds like it could have been written just last night

thanks for posting that

Very Famous
So famous, he attracted his own minisheet.

Also:
Prince Seif-al-Islam Ishmail.
Son of Imam Yahya and Yemen's first Philatelist.

..and this is he.

Reviving an old thread, but its nice to hear Mark Cuban talk about his stamp collecting from time to time on the show Shark Tank.

Who knew that, between cameras, ciggies and Bourbon, the US's greatest colour photographer collected stamps?

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-photography