AUDREY HEPBURN 2001

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Another piece of Germany's most desireable postwar stamps has been found during last week:A commercially used copy of the world famous unissued charity stamp "Audrey Hepburn" of 2001.A collector in his mid 30s living in the Rhineland area found this rarity, which is the 4th one world wide known,among a bunch of clipped envelope corners which he had kept untouched for a couple of years.Checking the internet, he found his way to the famous stamp auctioneer ULRICH FELZMANNwho has already auctioneered 2 pieces of this great rarity in 2005 and 2006. The buyer in 2005 paid incredible EURO 170,000 (USD 209,000) for his corner piece.ULRICH FELZMANN company will show this stamp legendary which the famous MICHEL catalogue quotes to be the "Blue Mauritius of Germany",on the occasion of the Sindelfingen International Stamp Fair (Oct 26 - 28, 2007, booth 62). The stamp is preserved still on its original envelope cut-out and goes with a clean certificate by philatelic expert Andreas Schlegel.Axel Möller, Philatelist and Webmaster of www.felzmann.de

Rare Hepburn stamps sell for $608,000

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Wed 20 Oct 2010Wednesday 20 October 2010

Sold: 10 rare postage stamps featuring Audrey Hepburn. (Auktionshaus Schlegal: AFP)

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A sheet of 10 rare postage stamps featuring Audrey Hepburn smoking a cigarette, with a face value of 56 cents, have been auctioned off for charity in Berlin for 430,000 euros ($608,000).

The German Postal Service printed 14 million of the commemorative stamps in 2001 without obtaining the rights to the picture.

When Hepburn's children objected to the stamps, most of them were destroyed.

Two-thirds of the auction proceeds will go to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, which was set up in 1994 by the actress's sons to improve the lives of children around the world.

The money will be used to educate children in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the charity's website.

The other third will go to UNICEF Germany.

Hepburn had been goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Children Fund from 1988 until her death from cancer in 1993.