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Postage stamps and postal history of British Guiana : ウィキペディア英語版 | Postage stamps and postal history of British Guiana
A privately run packet service for mail existed in British Guiana in 1796, and continued for a number of years. Postage stamps of Britain were used in those days at Georgetown (Demerara) and Berbice. The first adhesive stamps produced by British Guiana were issued in 1850. British Guiana is famous among philatelists for its early postage stamps, some of them considered to be among the rarest, most expensive stamps in the world. These include the unique British Guiana 1c magenta from 1856, which sold in 1980 for close to $1 million. In June 2014 the 1856 British Guiana one-cent magenta stamp was sold at auction in New York, to an anonymous bidder, for $9.5m (£5.6m) at auction in New York, a world record.〔()〕 == Cottonreels == The London government established an inland postal system on 1 July 1850, but postage stamps had not yet been produced. The postmaster in Georgetown went to the local newspaper, the ''Royal Gazette,'' where he had them print imperforate stamps in the form of an outline circle, with "BRITISH GUIANA" inside the rim, and a denomination, from 2c to 12c, in the middle. The printing was in black, on different colors of paper depending on the denomination. These became known as the "Cottonreels" because of their circular shape, like the labels on spools of cotton,〔( "Our First Postage Stamps: The 'Cottonreels'", National Trust of Guyana )〕 and are quite rare.
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