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Newspaper Article
- Author
- Howard, Phillip
- Title
- Armoured Escort for Two Penny Stamps
- In
- The Times
- Imprint
- 14 October 1968, p. 1
- Abstract
Chained to a courier's wrist, conveyed in an armoured car from the airport, watched day and night by security guards, insured for its two-day visit to Britain for $180,000, to be touched only with trepidation and through a plastic skin, one of the most valuable scraps of waste paper in the world was flown into London yesterday.