Collection defective stamps sell for $ 4 million
 

The auction house Spink Shreves Galleries is planning to sell a unique collection of postage stamps for nearly $ 4 million, said Tuesday the agency Associated Press.
Collection of about three thousand marks of typographical errors has been collected a resident of Pittsburgh, Robert Cunliffe (Robert H. Cunliffe), who died in 2008 at the age of 83 years. According to experts, veterans and enthusiastic collector managed to find almost all the known defective stamps.
A special place in the meeting Cunliffe took the brand on which part of the image reversed. It is expected that they will be the most expensive lots. Thus, four U.S. brands in 1901 with an upside-down electric auctioneers plan to rescue up to 300 thousand dollars and a copy of the famous "Inverted Jenny" in 1918 with the image of a biplane hope to sell for 150 thousand dollars.
As his son, said Cunliffe, he began to gather a collection at the age of three years. The family then lived in an apartment above the liquor store, and the boy had access to the marks on the boxes and boxes from the wine. The collection of excise stamps Kanlifa was sold in June 2008, almost two million dollars, the agency recalled.
(Lenta.ru)

And you have a brand? :) I where about 1500-2000 various pieces. Another father collected. I'm not fond of them, but their keep.

Reply to this can only old anegdotom:

Gathered at the entrance, three women and complain about their husbands.
- My husband - a drunkard.
- But I also drank so sleeps all the time.
- And my husband - gay.
From the balcony of his voice is heard at once:
- Dasha, how many times have I told you - I am not gay, and philatelist!

Collection of defective stamps offered for auction the American auction house Spink Shreves, sold over five million dollars, reports the Associated Press.
"Inverted Jenny" sold for 500 thousand dollars.
(Lenta.ru)