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The stamp images were submitted by SOR members, and are from their collections. Anyone wanting to submit stamp images should contact our Web Wizard for information.
Jerry Abern, Stamporama's founder, passed away in 2003. I don't know who the other five were. I'm sure there are some here who do.
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Not all come from private collections 
For instance the German Audrey Hepburn stamp is one of the most valuable modern stamps. Only a few exist (almost all were destroyed) and they are worth 1000s of euros.
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Maybe someone got lucky. I read somewhere that someone found the Audrey Hepburn stamp (the one with the cigarette, I forget what's in the more common version) in with a package of misc. German stamps! That might be an urban myth though. There's a clip from the Simpson's based on a yard sale. I'll provide the link if it works and if I'm not breaking a regulation. It's on YouTube and you can find it by searching Simpson's Yard Sale Junk, it's worth checking out!
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In 2001, Deutsche Post was planning on issuing a stamp featuring Hepburn, who was shown with a cigarette holder in her mouth. Her son objected to the depiction of his mother smoking and Deutsche Post scrapped the idea for the stamp and ordered all 14 million of them destroyed. Three sheets of 10 were, however, sent to the German Ministry of Finance and were used for postage. Five used copies were later found in kiloware lots and the first one was auctioned in 2006 for €53,000. The second sold for €69,000 and the third for €135,000. Number four went for €75,000 and number five for €67,000, after taxes and fees.
Hepburn’s son, Sean Ferrer, was in possession of a mint block of 10 that Deutsche Post had sent him for his approval and decided to auction them in 2010 with all proceeds going to UNICEF, Hepburn’s favorite charity. Against estimates of €500,000, it went for €430,000.
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I don’t think I was one of the original six, but I was there very early, when StampoRama was little more than Jerry Abern and an occasional, snail-mailed newsletter. Other members who are still around are Roy Lingen, who designed the original website (which is little changed from the original, IIRC) and hosts it on his Buck a Cover server; President David Teisler, and David Cohen. Several of the little images in the upper left corner of your display are mine.
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25 Jul 2019
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I love the little stamps that show up in the upper left of the pages and get a real charge out of seeing one that I have. Whose collection do they come from or do you have a huge file of images that are used randomly? I have also noted that SoR was originally started by a group of six collectors in 1996(?). Are any of these six people still contributing members of SoR?
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The stamp images were submitted by SOR members, and are from their collections. Anyone wanting to submit stamp images should contact our Web Wizard for information.
Jerry Abern, Stamporama's founder, passed away in 2003. I don't know who the other five were. I'm sure there are some here who do.
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Not all come from private collections
For instance the German Audrey Hepburn stamp is one of the most valuable modern stamps. Only a few exist (almost all were destroyed) and they are worth 1000s of euros.
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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
25 Jul 2019
04:42:01pm
re: stamps in upper left of page
Maybe someone got lucky. I read somewhere that someone found the Audrey Hepburn stamp (the one with the cigarette, I forget what's in the more common version) in with a package of misc. German stamps! That might be an urban myth though. There's a clip from the Simpson's based on a yard sale. I'll provide the link if it works and if I'm not breaking a regulation. It's on YouTube and you can find it by searching Simpson's Yard Sale Junk, it's worth checking out!
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In 2001, Deutsche Post was planning on issuing a stamp featuring Hepburn, who was shown with a cigarette holder in her mouth. Her son objected to the depiction of his mother smoking and Deutsche Post scrapped the idea for the stamp and ordered all 14 million of them destroyed. Three sheets of 10 were, however, sent to the German Ministry of Finance and were used for postage. Five used copies were later found in kiloware lots and the first one was auctioned in 2006 for €53,000. The second sold for €69,000 and the third for €135,000. Number four went for €75,000 and number five for €67,000, after taxes and fees.
Hepburn’s son, Sean Ferrer, was in possession of a mint block of 10 that Deutsche Post had sent him for his approval and decided to auction them in 2010 with all proceeds going to UNICEF, Hepburn’s favorite charity. Against estimates of €500,000, it went for €430,000.
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I don’t think I was one of the original six, but I was there very early, when StampoRama was little more than Jerry Abern and an occasional, snail-mailed newsletter. Other members who are still around are Roy Lingen, who designed the original website (which is little changed from the original, IIRC) and hosts it on his Buck a Cover server; President David Teisler, and David Cohen. Several of the little images in the upper left corner of your display are mine.
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