India 'Scinde Dawk' 1/2 Anna
- Maker
- Scinde (Sindh) District Post, British East India Company
- Year
- 1852
- Rank
- 45 of 100
India 'Scinde Dawk' 1/2 Anna
India 'Scinde Dawk' 1/2 Anna by Scinde (Sindh) District Post, British East India Company (1852) is ranked 45 in the FLOAT 100 for Stamps. It sold for $28,342 on 19 May 2011. The first adhesive postage stamps of Asia — embossed wax wafers — the genesis point of Indian and Asian philately.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The first adhesive postage stamps of Asia — embossed wax wafers — the genesis point of Indian and Asian philately.
SG PS1, 1/2 anna embossed wax wafer (red sealing-wax / blue variants); fewer than ~100 known
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $28,342
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 19 May 2011
David Feldman, 19 May 2011: superb unused 1/2a Blue, $28,342. A repaired 1/2a scarlet brought GBP 10,000 (~$15,199) at Spink, May 2013.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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