A rare block of Hong Kong stamps featuring Queen Victoria's head was sold for a record 821,000 US dollars, an auction house said Monday.
The block of four 1865 stamps with a face value of 96 Hong Kong cents (12 US cents) each, which were misprinted in an olive colour, were bought by an anonymous buyer at a sale Sunday, the auction house Spink said.
The price is the highest ever paid for a single lot of stamps in Hong Kong, Spink said. The stamps were sold as part of a two-day auction of rare stamps, coins and bank notes.
At the same auction, a 1908 Qing Dynasty 1-dollar bank note sold for the equivalent of 308,000 US dollars, a world auction record for a classic Chinese bank note, the auction house said.
