Bet you, if you were asked what the best performing asset class over the last few years had been you would not say stamps.

Well you should, because it is. Some stellar prices have been achieved for certain examples of very rare and very old bits of paper.

But before you go scuttling off to the attic to turn out granny’s long-forgotten trunk, have a care to look at Stanley Gibbons first.

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