What Is Your Most Expensive Philatelic Purchase?

Spouses should be kept in the loop, particularly if you're spending good coin.

If you die, and the material winds up in the skip bin, or your bereaved gets fleeced by an unscrupulous so and so, well I'm sure that's not the type of outcome any of us want.

Probably this

United States Scott 544.

Mine is a nice mlh 534B

It took 3 years for my wife and our financial advisor to get me to pull the trigger on these.

Striking blocks.

What happens when your wife figures out that your stamp dealer isn't actually a financial advisor?

As the kids say, YOLO!

CJD:

She insisted that I get a hobby after I retired. I opened my old trunks, pulled out my stamps that hadn't seen the light of day for decades, and was off to the races. IT'S ALL HER FAULT.

It was probably a 2915j double die cutting plate strip.

US O2s with the "sepcimen" error. Traded an O11S foreign entry plus cash. Still figure it was a good deal the O11s was a duplicate, and got me most of the way to a stamp I probably couldn't afford any other way.

Or..... maybe a couple nice collections of specialized Germany - Building series, and inflation OPD upper margin copies and used.

No regrets on either.

A dealer friend told me years ago that it was hard to pay too much but easy to pay too soon.

Jealous of having two O11S foreign entries....I don't have any (although I keep hoping to get lucky some day, since it is really beyond my budget).

uboatnut - Daaayyyyuuuummm son. Nice! Someday I'll get to that game level.

Mine is 66TC6, formerly known as #66, Lake. I've always loved the impression on this stamp:

My most expensive purchase for a single item that I put in my stamp book I purchased when I was in 4th grade on 06/01/1974. I cleaned a lot of stalls (horses, goats, chickens, etc) for a perfect Battle of White Plains sheet (Scott #630) for $400. Fifty years later I have not purchased a single stamp that cost more.

My Father told me that back then stamps were purchased for investments such as retirement funds which artificially raised the prices and today that same set of stamps is probably worth the same amount. Talk about poor investment value; good thing that is not why I bought it.

That stamp just pops ray.mac. Stunning impression

On paper it has to be the 50 million mark stamp from 1923! In modern money the German annual stamp books, which were 5 for $40 at the first show I went to at the end of June.