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The Worlds Rarest and Most Famous Stamp The 1 Cent Magenta from Guyana.
Discover the story of the worlds most expensive stamp
The Secret Garden
The site of the first Post office in Guyana and view the original post box
Sumptous British colonial lunch with Roast Beef and Yorksire Puddings

One Cent Magenta Stamp Tour with Lunch

By Singing Chef Adventures
Free cancellation available
Price is CA $175 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

A journey into the colonial history of Guyana and the storey of the 1 cent Magenta, the world's rarest and most expensive postage stamp.

The One-Cent Magenta Stamp was first discovered by a 12-year-old schoolboy, L. Vernon Vaughan, amongst some family papers in the 1856 edition of The Royal Gazette, Georgetown, in 1873.

He sold it for six shillings, apparently convinced he could find a better stamp example, but no one ever has.

It was no longer an ordinary stamp, a disposable element on a newspaper that was itself disposable. From the 1870s, the one-cent magenta was prized, tucked away in closely watched storage cabinets in palaces or vaults in banks. It fits the definition of collected objects prescribed by the cultural historian Philipp Blom in 2011. Such things “are like holy relics,” he wrote. “They have shed their original function and become totems.”

This tour will bring you close to the home of the world's rarest stamp.

Activity location

  • National Park
    • Thomas Road
    • Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • National Park
    • Thomas Road
    • Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana

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One Cent Magenta Stamp Tour with Lunch
  • Activity duration is 5 hours and 30 minutes5h 30m5h 30m
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 9:00 a.m.
Price details
CA $174.73 x 2 AdultsCA $349.46
Total
Price is CA $349.46
Until Mon, Nov 25

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedsoft drinks tea and coffee

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

National Park
  • 30m
Our first stop is a visit to the Manatee Pond in the National Park . Manatee’s were depicted on Guyanese stamps in 1993.
Walter Rodney Archives
  • 30m
Visit the Walter Rodney Archive and see an original copy of the Royal Gazette newspaper which the 1 cent magenta was found on
High Street
  • 15m
Visit the original site of the Royal Gazette newspaper who were commissioned to print the 1 cent Magenta in 1856.
Guyana National Museum
  • 30m
Visit the Guyana Museum and see the original printing press that the 1 Cent Magenta Stamp was printed on. View the range of stamps that form part of the exhibition.
Parliament Building of Guyana
  • 30m
We then journey to the Parliament Building , the site of the first Post office in Guyana and view the original post box This was the Post Office where the 1 cent Magenta Stamp was sold
Guyana Post Office Corporation
  • 45m
Then go to the Philatelic shop in the Georgetown Post Office and view and maybe purchase the Guyanese Stamps and First Day Covers .
Foreshaw Street
  • 30m
Visit the Tortoise Protective Haven where 12 giant yellow and red footed tortoises roam. The tortoises featured on the 2012 Reptiles of South America Stamp edition.
Foreshaw Street
  • 2h
Then its off to the Secret Garden with the coconut palm and bamboo gazebo where Eon John will prepare a sumptuous meal of traditional British fare with a Guyanese twist which the young finder of the stamp and his uncle the original owner of the 1 cent magenta would have enjoyed This will consist of Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding ,Roast Potatoes ,Baked Pumpkin, Callaloo and Gravy . After which a delightful fresh fruit salad with coconut patisserie and coconut jam See the original Donald Duck comic that Walt Disney created in 1952 to chart Donald Ducks adventures into British Guinea to find the world’s rarest stamp and see photos of President Ali with the 1 cent Magenta in London

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESNational Park
    • Thomas Road
    • Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLENational Park
    • Thomas Road
    • Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana

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