BEER Group Read. Stamps again

[Mark Kohut]

"my dream is to become the Bill Gross of duck stamps" 
 
Bill Gross, the bond king billionaire, terrif philanthropist DOES collect stamps: Remember the 'inverted Jenny"?
Gross is also a prominent stamp collector.[17] As of November 2005, he became the third person (after Robert Zoellner in the 1990s and Benjamin K Miller pre-1925)[18] to form a complete collection of 19th century United States postage stamps. In October 2005, he purchased at auction for $2.97 million a unique plate block of the famous 1918 24-cent U.S. airmail stamps known as the "Inverted Jenny," featuring an engraving of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane printed upside-down. He then traded the Inverted Jenny Plateblock to Donald Sundman, President of Mystic Stamp Company, a stamp dealer, for a 1-cent 1868 "Z Grill" depicting Benjamin Franklin, thus completing Gross's 19th century collection.[19]
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