Hepburn stamp auctioned for $74,600
A rare German stamp depicting Audrey Hepburn with a cigarette holder, an image from the 1961 movie “Breakfast at Tiffanys,” has been sold for 74,600 (53,500 euros) by a Berlin auction house.
The Berlin auction house Schlegel, which specializes in stamps, said it believed up to 30 of the Hepburn stamps existed.
Germany had planned to issue 14 million copies of the stamp in 2001. Instead, it had to destroy them because the family of the actress did not approve of her image being used on the stamp. Just a handful survived.
The starting bid for the stamp, which went to an anonymous collector, was 30,000 euros. The Belgian-born film star and fashion icon died of cancer in Switzerland in 1993.
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