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

Jin Muchen was also suddenly startled when he saw her reaction before, and when he saw her demeanor at this time, his heart was also relieved, but then there was a burst of ecstasy in his heart.

Most of the philatelic albums he had collected before seemed to him to be junk stamps, but there were a few of them that seemed to be very good, especially the black swan stamps.

In his opinion, it was very strange, but he couldn't say exactly what was strange, after all, he was not an expert in stamp collection.

Originally, I planned to take these stamps back to the United States, and I was looking for some colleagues who specialized in the stamp business to help me take a look, but now there is an expert in front of me?

Belinda may be a specialist in antique coins, but she is also a philatelic enthusiast, and if you show her the stamps that were issued in Australia, she might be able to tell why.

Thinking of this, Jin Muchen raised his head and said to Belinda: "That's really good, 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's okay now, so I'll go with you and have a look."

Belinda agreed very happily, and Jin Muchen was also a little surprised, originally just spoken. He regretted that he was too reckless.

After all, people have to go to work. At this time, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. It's almost three o'clock, according to common sense, it should be the time for people to work, and at this time invite people to help them identify stamps, which will definitely delay people from going to work.

But he didn't expect Belinda to agree in one bite.

Belinda also saw the surprised look on his face, so she smiled at him: "Don't worry, I don't have anything to do in the company anyway." And they might wish I didn't go to work. ”

Well! There must be something going on here!

Jin Muchen is not stupid, he can see the bitter taste in Belinda's smile just now, and now when he listens to her say this, he immediately notices that she doesn't seem to be going well at work.

But his relationship with Belinda, after all, has not yet reached any point, so it is not good to ask too much at this time.

Jin Muchen called the waiter to pay the bill, and then took Belinda to the hotel, although he had been to Melbourne when he had traveled before, he had only visited so many attractions. So he wasn't familiar with the road conditions here.

From this hotel back to the hotel where he was staying. You have to drive Belinda, the landlord, to lead the way.

It was more than three o'clock in the afternoon, which was not the peak of commuting, so they soon returned to the hotel where Jin Muchen was staying.

Jin Muchen is now a rich man, so he must live in a luxury suite in a hotel, if it weren't for the fact that staying in the presidential suite is too luxurious and too easy to attract attention, he would definitely choose to live in the presidential suite.

However, the Grand Treasury Garden Hotel's luxurious suites are not bad, the hotel is located in the heart of the city, and this suite is located on the 48th floor of the hotel, and you can open the curtains to overlook the whole of Melbourne, not far from the Treasury Garden Park and the Yarra River.

Jin Muchen took Belinda into the room, first asked her to sit down in the living room, then poured her a cup of coffee, and then went back to the bedroom and opened the suitcase, pretending.

In fact, the philatelic album has always been in his space, but of course he can't take the philatelic album out of the space in front of Belinda.

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

"Most of the stamps in this album are local Australians, you can take a look."

Belinda smiled and took the stamp album, and then began to flip through it, the first few pages were the kind of earliest stamps issued in Australia, as Jin Muchen said.

The stamps, almost without exception, are busts of Queen Victoria, and these stamps are not worth much.

Belinda glanced at it a few times, then rolled over, and then quickly came to the back.

"I think these stamps are interesting."

Jin Muchen smiled and pointed to the few stamps that were not the same and said to Belinda.

Belinda's gaze also shifted to the stamps, and the first one she saw was the pale red stamp, the one of a British beauty, with a leather whip, sitting on a haystack, educating the prisoners.

She looked very carefully, looked at it for a while, and then 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 statue of the Queen, and this stamp has a nickname, called 'Sydney Scenery', and you look at the background behind the stamp, which is the city of Sydney at that time. AND THE WORDS THAT SURROUND THE STATUE, SUCH AS 'SIGILLUM. NOV. CAMB. AUST', the word in the circle, which translates into English to mean 'seal of New South Wales'. This stamp is of great significance in the history of the development of stamps in Australia, because it is the first stamp issued in Australia that uses the seal of New South Wales. ”

Belinda is also an expert in stamps, and people can tell the truth at a casual glance.

This made Jin Muchen very happy, he originally thought that he would have to take it back to the United States so that he could find someone to help identify it, but he didn't expect to meet such a ready-made expert here.

"So, this stamp is very valuable, isn't it?"

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

"Although this stamp plays an important role in the history of stamps in Australia, it was issued in large quantities at that time, and there are many in existence now, so it is not particularly precious in the stamp market. A well-preserved one like yours is estimated to be worth three to five hundred dollars. ”

Grass, Jin Muchen scolded in his heart, Lao Tzu is a white joy, and he thought he had picked up a treasure.

However, these words can't be said in front of Belinda, but Belinda is also a shrewd person, and she saw Jin Muchen's low mood at a glance, and then said to him with a smile.

"You don't have to worry, you still have good things in this album, such as these tourist stamps issued by the local Tasmanian government between 1899 and 1900, this stamp is quite valuable."

Belinda pointed to the relatively large stamp with a view of the island and explained to Jin Muchen.

Hearing her say this, Jin Muchen felt a lot better, and he could see that this stamp should have been issued by the local government of Tasmania, but the specific origin, he couldn't tell, or Belinda's professional.

"This stamp was specially printed by the colonial government at that time in order to encourage people to travel more to Tasmania, so it was very special, the market circulation was not particularly large, and only people who traveled to Tasmania at that time could buy it on the island. So it's still very collectible, and now in the philatelic market, such stamps have been speculated to about $3,000 to $5,000 a piece, and you have six here, and the condition is good. So, you're in good luck. ”

Belinda said to Jin Muchen with a smile, Jin Muchen is not bad when he hears it, although it is only tens of thousands of yuan, this amount of money is not a big deal for him at all, but the key is that the feeling of success in picking up leaks is still quite refreshing.

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

Belinda continued to look down, but after watching it for a while, she didn't say anything, and Jin Muchen was still a little strange.

But at this time, she screamed so suddenly, but Jin Muchen was startled, what a blue swan, a black swan, he didn't understand, but he could hear the word 'wrong version' that came out of Belinda's mouth.

At this time, he also became excited, stamps this thing, and banknote collection is a reason, the favorite is the wrong version, once stained with the wrong word, the value will definitely turn over and head up.

"What is the wrong version of the Blue Swan?"

Jin Muchen looked up and asked Belinda, and Belinda pointed to the blue swan stamps in the philatelic album with an excited face and explained to Jin Muchen.

After New South Wales issued the first stamp without the Queen's head in 1850, other states in the Australian colonies began to follow suit. In 1853, the Western Australian government intended to issue a new stamp because of their abundance of black swans, so they used the swan as a statue in the middle of the stamp. However, due to the printing technology at the time, the stamps were all blue. The stamp was issued in large quantities at the time, but in 1855, a printer, Alfred, accidentally knocked down the frame mould while printing, so the first misprinted stamp in Australian history was printed. Because the border was misplaced, so in fact, when printing, the swan was upright, but the words of Western Australia and a penny stamp on the border were indeed printed upside down, but there are still many people who mistakenly believe that the printing house is printing the swan upside down, so in the philatelic circle, many people call this stamp "inverted swan" stamp! At that time, a total of 388 such wrong stamps were printed, but until now only 15 complete proofs have been preserved. ”

Belinda's interest soared when she said this, and this was also a new discovery for her. (To be continued......)