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Keith Heddle, Managing Director of Investments at Stanley Gibbons, is to address the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce lunch, Monday 15 May.
A leading authority on rare stamps and coins, Keith will be speaking about Guernsey’s role in a 177-year-old communications revolution. Focusing on the Penny Black, the world’s first stamp, Keith will explain how this small piece of paper helped make the world a smaller place, and how being based in Guernsey is helping the company take it around the world again to benefit new generations.
To illustrate the talk Keith will be bringing over a selection of exhibits for Chamber members to view. These include a very rare strip of 2d Blues (priced at £300,000), a rare Chinese overprint (priced at £87,500), and the 'Roses' error from 1976. This stamp, which should have been 13p, was last sold for £135,000. Exceedingly rare, just one example of its kind exists outside the Queen’s private collection.
Keith will also shall also be showcasing an Alexander the Great, 'museum-grade' coin from around 330BC used by the Greeks to communicate messages about power across their Empire.
Keith said: “The Penny Black was at the heart of a global communications revolution. As we move forward with ever newer forms of communication, rare stamps are coming back into fashion in a very different way - and our business in Guernsey helps us reach a whole new generation and type of client.
“Some of the items I’m bringing over have never been seen in Guernsey before and this is a great opportunity for Chamber members to find out more about these beautiful items, and their place in the world.”
Earlier this year investors and collectors in Guernsey were treated to a display by Stanley Gibbons of over £1 million worth of rare stamps and coins, including the most valuable sheet of rare 2d (Two Penny) Blues outside the Royal collection or a museum and the largest gold coin ever struck in Britain by Charles I during the English Civil War.
Stanley Gibbons has recently moved to a new office at The Grange, St Peter Port, offering the team more space to service clients and manage the portfolios held on-Island.
