World’s 1st Postage Stamp Goes Up for Auction

An example of the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is being offered at a Sotheby’s auction in December. Dating from 1840, the item is "the earliest securely dated example of the first postage stamp," according to the auction house. “It took me three years with a team of people to collect the information and to be able to validate. It is certified by all of the top authorities,” said Alan Holyoake, current owner of the Penny Black stamp. Inside Edition Digital’s Stephanie Officer explains. #InsideEdition

[@offendedliberal6374]

Rick from pawn stars would be like best I can do is 100. I gotta make money off of it.

[@vitaminprotein325]

Lmao😂

[@markgamble6581]

I mean he takes all the risk amiright?

[@mocat1]

… and he’d somehow have this guy come back from the dead, to authenticate it.

[@gilbertangelo3692]

😂 a hundred bucks that's on his good day if he feels like it

[@SevenHunnid]

I get high while i do reaction videos on my UA-cam channel 😅

[@user-rn1lb8sx2c]

Rick: the best the best I can do is $8.25 and before I can pay such a big price, I’m going to have to call in on of my friends who’s an expert in postal stamps. I’m taking all the risk here bud

[@mexicannoob5944]

wat

[@maureen14]

Lol

[@OhMyJawsh]

@@mexicannoob5944 pawn stars reference

[@mexicannoob5944]

@@OhMyJawsh hmmmmmm maybe

[@grinchh4035]

Hu?

[@madasahatter5514]

I'm hoping a museum gets it and not a private collector, so the public can enjoy it. But I doubt it.

[@Sebastian-eg6xo]

Agreed, but its highly unlikely

[@ABSD30062]

what people gona enjoye watching the stamp lol

[@carlosblandino3271]

@@ABSD30062 you know nothing about investing lol

[@madasahatter5514]

@@ABSD30062 Not people like you obviously. I'd love to see it in person. It's a piece of history.

[@Wheelygonzales]

You never know. The owner could loan it out to a museum for a period of time.

[@AttilatheThrilla]

I’ll give them $5 and a hug

[@shrekwazowski3836]

That 1st postage stamp is older than my great great grandma.

[@mexicannoob5944]

Its older than us

[@kevbud1978]

Same

[@CurrencyChronicles1]

Every collector must be going crazy.

[@henrylivingstone2971]

I know it’s been printed via printing press but it looks like it’s been printed by a very low quality desk jet printer 😂😂😂

[@custardcat5185]

It's almost 300 years old, what do you expect?

[@henrylivingstone2971]

@@custardcat5185
Not even close. It was made in 1840 so it’s only 181 years old, so by that point I expected some crisper print image considering the detailed natured of contemporary bank notes and other printed documents.

[@Theo-bk6qj]

@@henrylivingstone2971 material degrade overtime. Depending on where the stamp been to, it will age differently. Such as humid area can degrade it a lot faster than let’s say a mixed of hot and warm season.

[@donaldfrazier6940]

Ya know this would be a good punchline to a "Yo momma so old..." joke🥁🥁

[@completebilingual]

Why not keep it in a museum? If it's so valuable.

[@jamalwilburn228]

They already have 2 in museams

[@mexicannoob5944]

true

[@sylvesteruchia5263]

It's probably belongs to somebody so the museum would have to buy it.

[@AttilatheThrilla]

Whoever owns it gets to make that choice

[@eddiegainz1673]

I love the way the old man speaks.

[@TYPICALTRYHARD_]

Ahh yes a sticker how valuable

[@HazeMazeExtras]

Not only a sticker, the first sticker

[@carlosblandino3271]

Just like the paper you work for

[@TYPICALTRYHARD_]

@@carlosblandino3271 also know as a diploma stating that you slaved a way for 4+ years so you can get a job

[@samuraiboi2735]

@@HazeMazeExtras almost 2 centuries

[@bigboy6704]

@@TYPICALTRYHARD_ pretty sure they mean money, smooth brain

[@fireflymiesumae]

Very cool that it's still around

[@youtubelabeledmeapredator826]

Put in a museum

[@raible9554]

We could sell the original constitution as well.

[@ethano9527]

I’ll be bidding on that

[@Greenpoloboy3]

I wonder when the person buys it, what letter they will lick and stick it onto and sent it to?

[@Mooshoo23]

Maybe for a happy birthday card to his or her nephew? Lmao

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@@Mooshoo23 Aww, a nice card for the birthday boy! Now 5, so a big boy! :)

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@@Xane_Dragon XD

[@Sweetyhide]

In the movie Brewster's Millions with Richard Pryor, he had to waste a ton of $ without showing assets. He bought an expensive stamp and mailed it. Good movie.

[@floorloot4628]

Rick: let me call a buddy and low ball you beyond your dreams

[@kayla7562]

Why did they make the titles of those pawn shows like..that? “Pawn stars” & “Hardcore Pawn” I see a lot of Rick references, so yeah.

[@kennykedits]

Rick: Ehhh lemme get someone to look at this

[@journeymansmitty8283]

Wow that is so cool it would be crazy water actually got on it and it ripped🤔

[@buyanti09channel48]

Wonderful collection stamps 👍🙏

[@chrisbelli445]

Not the first, but the oldest.

[@lowesonia8551]

FIRST AND OLDEST. NO ONE HAD INVENTED A' STICK ON BAUGHT PAPER STAMP WITH SOVEREIGNS IMAGE ON IT' THE ROYAL POSTAL SERVICE. Previously mail was just rubber stamped official. Or sealed with red wax seal. Signet ring pressed onto it Signature of sender.

[@rabbitsquad9953]

Put that it a museum that belongs in the museum for all to see

[@tinyisnotugly9146]

Looks cool

[@fantasyprincessgirl]

Happy Halloween everybody!

[@DavidGarcia-fb7ty]

Happy Halloween

[@spooky3060]

Rick: best I can do is $3.25 anything above that price I would not accept it

[@garycarpenter2980]

I've never seen a stamp that old

[@ashtond8860]

One penny take it or leave it

[@TheSweettooth95]

I don't know how they could tell it's the first

[@lacie18]

Earliest known

[@christianmcgratb807]

Chum from Pawn star " yea idk much about this item and its cool and all but i gotta buy weed tonight im dry, so best I can do is 2500" lol

[@gojira4036]

This stamp is older than the Austro-Hungarian empire.

[@paulpichler]

And older than 23 U.S. states.

[@Drucio]

Dumbest scam to avoid tax's just like NFT's...

[@kayla7562]

Yeah you should see what some of the Disney Vhs tapes on eBay sold for. It’s just regular ones that we all have/had. 🤦‍♀️

[@tomlantis8016]

8.25million out of my budget

[@geethmadusara7337]

Best i can do is one penny

[@allansemillano5236]

$60000 on the line

[@jennifercoleman6218]

8 million? Wow

[@leander_jeff1]

I hope no one wants it . And it's like we'll damn I was wrong . Lol

[@gerardotamayo4054]

Lol a stamp costing millions

[@Amitdas-gk2it]

Nice

[@oof1939]

Inside Edition

[@al1_queen994]

Pov: you're watching all the comments about Rick 👁👄👁❓

[@kayla7562]

Me af

[@shadedfilms7523]

The British Royal Family should get it

[@ED2302]

Interesting

[@darealjeffbezos6218]

Nobody asked

[@hi-hc9xu]

@@darealjeffbezos6218 shut up kid you have 2 moms

[@ED2302]

@@darealjeffbezos6218I asked

[@mexicannoob5944]

EVERYONE STOP TALKING TRASH NO CARES BOTU YOU TO TALK TRASH ABOUT HIM OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH REKT

[@darealjeffbezos6218]

@@hi-hc9xu your mom is so poor she cant even pay attention

[@thatguy5801]

'This is a world Icon, its the first stamp in the world", meanwhile the World: being used and abused by this guy for a stamp.

[@eighterthabest9024]

Pft. Thats not that old.

[@gingerdog2176]

Rick the best I can do is 18.40 I have to make money and that was the year

[@nickknepper6417]

Ehhhhhhhhh. Still might not be the "FIRST" stamp.

[@jayden7737]

Ahhh 405!!!

[@mexicannoob5944]

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[@50CeNTTTTT]

Happy Halloween Everyone!! ✌🏼I just love it when I get that pop up saying "Someone has liked your comment" or "Someone has subscribed!" It makes somebody's day better! 😍

[@mexicannoob5944]

ok

[@Prime666]

I like it when people aren’t desperate for such little things 😊

[@jovanijaimes6340]

Who tf saves these things..

[@japchae5645]

collectors, it's like asking who tf keeps paintings

[@skendecks6270]

ok

[@shinyalpha1409]

just buys and rips the stamp.

[@waffle_yt2094]

Damn 😎cool

[@mexicannoob5944]

IM HERE

[@fredy271185]

useless old little paper worth more than human kidney or average houses. we live in a weird world.

[@scottarivett496]

Let’s go Brandon

[@whynot-rr1gg]

Woah

[@team69racing11]

From d kingz of kingz postage!!!! Jus sayin!!

[@longgreengrasspandapuss7935]

Waste of money!

[@topaznightengale1433]

Hmmm 🤔 cool

[@mexicannoob5944]

make a video of school shoot out

[@harrywalker1621]

It's a fake sum super rich villain has the real one

[@litmodz4826]

so you can just buy history really?

[@CoolClipsAnimations]

You could all was do that you can buy tanks if you want to just look for them

[@AsgarCg]

Hello. I have a collection of valuable and rare original stamps from several countries with a long life. Can you help or buy?

[@Theguywithwrizz]

Boop

[@tomsimpson5317]

I'd rather have the millions

[@Myen0912]

5M🤑🤔

[@skybeee]

wow

[@Levi-st9fx]

Post about IceCube heroic stance on COVID 19 vaccine decline!

[@lowesonia8551]

Talking about the Penny Black 1840 1st. World postage stamp. The ghastly strong American drawl accent is more than annoying . More of the history would have been interesting by the British man. I thought it was in Queen Elizabeths Stamp Collection!

[@dogydog247]

So msny hungry people yet they waste money on this. Please explain to me why?

[@CoolClipsAnimations]

Because it’s there money and money will not save those people that’s why we still have that problem we need to fix the government of that country

[@japchae5645]

ask your politicians

[@CoolClipsAnimations]

@@japchae5645 see your not stupid

[@sasukeonroll4005]

Wow I’m the 2nd commenter

[@mexicannoob5944]

yes

[@IamLegendaryguy1998]

Can you make a video about Ethiopia and make more videos about kidnapping in Haiti