Buyer Of The British Guiana One Cent Magenta Revealed

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As a boy in Queens with a couple of stamp albums, Stuart Weitzman stared at the blank spaces for two of the world's most famous stamps — spaces that he figured he would never fill. One was for an 1856 One-Cent Magenta from British Guiana, and there is only one One-Cent Magenta in all the world.

Mr. Weitzman, 73, pretty much gave up stamp collecting in his late teens and went on to achieve notoriety and wealth designing shoes — strappy gladiator sandals, sultry thigh-high boots and dozens of others made from everything from cork to Lucite, even 24-karat gold.

But Mr. Weitzman never forgot about the One-Cent Magenta, and he fulfilled his boyhood dream last year when he bought the stamp anonymously at auction for $9.5 million.

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Fascinating if the 1c magenta was involved in this.