Sentence examples for expensive stamps from inspiring English sources

There's a Swedish philatelist who makes him tear up books of expensive stamps.

When the post office sold me star-shaped Christmas cards without advertising the fact that they required more expensive stamps, I refused to pay the extra.

If you needed to do a mail-out to concert promoters you had to produce your own brochure, you had to type three or four hundred envelopes and you had to lick three or four hundred expensive stamps.

That would make it the most expensive stamp in the world.

The previous Plate 77 Penny Red sold in 2012 for £550,000, making it the UK's most expensive stamp.

As an investment, Heddle said, the Penny Red still had some way to go before it troubles the world's most expensive stamp.

Tellingly, according to Mr. Heddle, an anonymous banking conglomerate in Switzerland was behind the purchase of the most expensive stamp, the Swedish Treskilling Yellow, which sold for £1.6 million, or $2.1 million, at auction in 2010.

In Britain, publishing, when it emerged in a form that we would recognize, was held down by taxation, through an expensive stamp that newspaper owners and pamphleteers were required to purchase.

And the market obviously still has space for new names to make that crossover from clothes into cosmetics, with two recent examples standing out; in July 2010, Burberry launched a permanent collection containing 96 products all marked with the trademark Burberry check and September 2011 saw Tom Ford put his slick and reassuringly expensive stamp on a small but perfectly formed cosmetics line.

Additional cars became available and the locomotive or "power unit" underwent some refinements during production; and a less expensive stamped lithographed steel version was also produced.

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