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Belinda stuck out her tongue and said with a hint of shyness. At this time, she was not like a professional appraisal expert sitting in the office before, but like a cute girl next door. network

Jin Muchen was also taken aback when she saw such a big reaction from her before. At this time, when she saw her demeanor, her heart was relieved, but her heart was filled with ecstasy.

The stamp album he had collected before was mostly junk stamps in his opinion, but there were so many of them that seemed to be pretty good, especially the black swan stamps.

In his opinion, it is very strange, but he can't say exactly what is strange, after all, he is not an expert in stamp collecting.

Originally, I planned to bring these stamps back to the United States, and I was looking for some colleagues who specialize in the stamp business to help me take a look, but isn't there an expert in front of me now?

Although Belinda is known as an expert on antique coins, she is also a stamp collector, and those stamps are issued in Australia. If you show her, maybe she can tell why.

Thinking of this, Jin Muchen raised his head and said to Belinda, "That's great, my stamp album is in my luggage, if you don't mind, you can go back with me and help me take a look. ,How about it?"

"That's great. It just so happens that I have nothing to do right now, so I'll go and see with you."

Belinda agreed very happily, and Jin Muchen was also a little surprised, she had just said the words. He regretted that he was too reckless.

After all, people have to work. It was already two o'clock in the afternoon. It's almost three o'clock. According to common sense, it should be when people go to work. At this time, they invite people to help them identify stamps. This will definitely delay people's work.

But he didn't expect that Belinda agreed in one bite.

Belinda also saw the surprised look on his face, so she smiled at him: "Don't worry, I don't have much to do in the company anyway. And maybe they want me not to go to work."

Um! There's definitely something going on here!

Jin Muchen is not stupid. He could see the bitter taste in Belinda's smile just now. Now, listening to her, he immediately noticed that her work was not going well.

But the relationship between him and Belinda, after all, has not yet reached a certain stage, so there is not much to ask at this time.

Jin Muchen called the waiter to pay the bill, and then took Belinda out of the restaurant. Although he had been to Melbourne when he traveled before, he also visited a few attractions. Therefore, he is not familiar with the road conditions here.

From this hotel back to his hotel. I have to drive Belinda, the landlord, to lead the way.

After three o'clock in the afternoon, it was not the peak time for commuting, so they soon returned to the hotel where Jin Muchen stayed.

Jin Muchen is rich now, so he must live in the luxury suite of the hotel. If it weren't for the fact that living in the presidential suite is too extravagant and easy to attract attention, he would definitely choose to live in the presidential suite.

However, the deluxe suite of the Treasury Garden Hotel is not bad. The hotel is originally located in the city center, and this suite is located on the golden floor of the 48th floor of the hotel. When you open the curtains, you can overlook the beautiful scenery of the whole of Melbourne. The treasury is not far away. Garden Park and the Yarra River, you can have a panoramic view.

Jin Muchen took Belinda into the room, first let her sit down in the living room, then poured her a cup of coffee, then went back to the bedroom to open the suitcase and pretended to be.

In fact, the stamp album was always kept in his space, but of course he couldn't take the stamp album out of the space in front of Belinda.

After pretending to flip through the room for a while, he walked out of the room with the stamp album, and then pushed the stamp album in front of Belinda.

"Most of the stamps in this album are local Australian stamps, take a look."

Belinda took the stamp album with a smile, and then began to look at it. The first few pages, as Jin Muchen said, were the earliest stamps issued in Australia.

The pictures on the stamps, almost without exception, are the bust of Queen Victoria, and these stamps are not worth much.

Belinda took a few glances, then turned over, and quickly came to the back.

"I think these stamps are very interesting."

Jin Muchen smiled and pointed to the few stamps with different statues and said to Belinda.

Belinda's eyes also shifted to those stamps. The first one she saw was the pale red stamp, a British beauty, holding a whip, sitting on a haystack, the one who was educating the prisoners. open.

She looked at it carefully, and after watching it for a while, she raised her head and said to Jin Muchen.

"Well, this stamp, which is quite famous in Australia, is the first stamp that is not a portrait of the Queen. This stamp has a nickname called 'Sydney Scenery'. You look at the background behind the stamp, which is the city of Sydney at that time. There are also these words surrounding the statue. For example, this circle is Latin, and translated into English means 'the seal of New South Wales'. This stamp is of great significance in the history of stamp development in Australia, because it This is the first stamp to be issued in Australia with a stamp like the Seal of New South Wales."

Belinda is indeed an expert in stamps, and people can tell the truth by just looking at it.

This made Jin Muchen happy. At first, he thought he had to take it back to the United States to find someone to help him identify it, but he didn't expect to meet such a ready-made expert here.

"So, this stamp is very valuable?"

He heard Belinda say that this stamp was very important, so he asked casually, but Belinda shook her head and explained it to him with a smile.

"Although this stamp has a very important position in the history of stamps in Australia, the circulation at that time was not small, and there are many in the world now, so it is not particularly precious in the stamp market. Preserving the quality like you does In good condition, it is estimated to be worth three or five hundred dollars."

Grass, Jin Muchen scolded inwardly, I was just happy for nothing, I thought I had found a treasure.

But these words can't be said in front of Belinda, but Belinda is also a shrewd person, she can see Jin Muchen's depression at a glance, and then say it to him with a smile.

"You don't have to worry, there are still good things in your stamp album, such as these tourist stamps issued by the Tasmanian local government between 1899 and 1900. This stamp is very valuable. of."

Belinda pointed to the larger stamp with an island scenery and explained it to Jin Muchen.

Hearing what she said, Jin Muchen felt a lot better. He could see at the time that this stamp should have been issued by the local government of Tasmania, but he couldn't tell the exact origin. up to professional.

"This stamp was specially issued by the colonial government to encourage people to travel more to Tasmania, so it is very special. The market circulation is not particularly large. At that time, there were only people who traveled to Tasmania. , can only be bought on the island. So it is still very valuable for collection. Now in the philatelic market, such stamps have been fired to about 3,000 to 5,000 US dollars a piece. You have six here, and the preserved appearance is also Not bad. So, you guys are really lucky."

Belinda smiled and said to Jin Muchen, Jin Muchen was not bad after hearing it, although it was only tens of thousands of dollars, this amount of money was not a big deal to him at all, but the key was the feeling of success in picking up the leak. People are cool.

"Wow... You actually have a blue swan stamp here, and it's still the wrong version..."

Belinda continued to look down, but after watching it for a while, she stopped making a sound. Jin Muchen was a little strange at first.

But at this time, she screamed so suddenly, but Jin Muchen was startled. He didn't understand what blue swans and black swans were, but the words 'wrong version' came out of Belinda's mouth. Hear it clearly.

At this time, he also became excited. Stamps are the same as banknote collection. The most favorite is the wrong version. If the word wrong version is stained, the value will definitely turn around. escaping upwards.

"What is the wrong version of the blue swan?"

Jin Muchen raised her head and asked Belinda, and Belinda pointed at the blue swan stamps in the stamp album with excitement at this time and explained to Jin Muchen. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

"After New South Wales issued the first stamp without the Queen's face in 1850, other states in the Australian colonies began to follow suit. In 1853, the Western Australian government planned to issue a new stamp because they were rich in black Swan, so the swan was used as the statue in the middle of the stamp. However, because of the printing technology at that time, the stamps issued were all blue. This stamp was issued in large quantities at that time, but in 1855, because of a The printer, when Alfred was printing, he accidentally put down the mold of the border, so the first misprinted stamp in Australian history was printed like this. Because the border was misplaced, in fact When printing, the swan was placed upright, but the words Western Australia and the penny stamp on the border were indeed printed upside down, but there are still many people who mistakenly believe that the printing house printed the swan upside down, so in the philatelic circle , Many people call this stamp the 'inverted swan' stamp! At that time, a total of 388 stamps were printed, but only 15 complete sample stamps have been preserved. It's definitely a brand new discovery!"

Belinda said this, and her interest also rose, which was also a brand new discovery for her. (To be continued...) Happy reading every day