{"id":1629,"date":"2009-05-27T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T03:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/05\/holly-golightlys-drag-to-fetch-thousands\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T03:18:15","slug":"holly-golightlys-drag-to-fetch-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/27\/holly-golightlys-drag-to-fetch-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Golightly’s Drag To Fetch Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Times South Africa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Rare Audrey Hepburn stamp goes on auction<\/h1>\n

BERLIN \u2013 A collector stands to make a tidy profit after discovering a rare stamp portraying movie star Audrey Hepburn smoking \u2014 one of a series that should have been incinerated by the German government.<\/p>\n

In 2001, the government printed 14 million Audrey Hepburn stamps as part of a series featuring movie stars including Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. The print run was destroyed after Hepburn\u2019s son, Sean Ferrer, objected to the cigarette holder dangling from the actress\u2019 mouth and refused to grant copyright.<\/p>\n

But the Finance Ministry had already delivered advance copies of the Hepburn stamps to Deutsche Post for approval. Thirty of these proof copies escaped destruction when an unknown employee pocketed them and used them to send letters postmarked from Berlin.<\/p>\n

A minimum bid of $41,959 () has been set for the stamp \u2014 of which only five copies are known to exist \u2014 at its auction Tuesday at Berlin\u2019s Kempinski Hotel Bristol.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The Times SA<\/span><\/a> ]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Times South Africa Rare Audrey Hepburn stamp goes on auction BERLIN \u2013 A collector stands to make a tidy profit after discovering a rare stamp portraying movie star Audrey Hepburn smoking \u2014 one of a series that should have been incinerated by the German government. In 2001, the government printed 14 million Audrey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}