The HMS ''Glasgow'' error is a 6d

postage stamp A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the fa ...

error produced by the

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in 1964. It commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1914

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. The error featured the incorrect ship, HMS ''Glasgow'', instead of HMS ''Kent'', which should have been used. Apparently one sheet was sent to a stamp dealer in the United States who did not notice the mistake. It is believed that only the one sheet of 60 stamps was produced; only 17 stamps have been recorded. A single stamp from the collection of Sir Gawaine Baillie was sold in 2004 for £24,000, and another example was sold in May 2005 for CHF 29,000. More recently,
marginal example
sold in December 2006 for £30,555.

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