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I have a question for philately experts about the movie "Charade".?

I just watched this excellent mystery movie with Audrey Hepburn (who is stunningly attractive) and Cary Grant. In it a number of people are looking for a valuable treasure which turns out to be three rare postage stamps. They are described as a Swedish 4 shilling from 1854 (it is a red stamp), a Hawaiian Blue three cent stamp, and what I believe they call a Gazak Moldov, which is blue with Russian writing, the number 82, and a picture of a bull's head.

Here is a clip from the movie, where the stamps are described and shown close-up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9O1VVeMzhc

First, are these actual rare stamps?

Second, in the movie, which was made in 1963, their values are given as $85,000, $65,000, and $100,000, respectively.

If they are real, how much are they worth today in 2014?

Thanks for indulging my curiosity!

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  • Miz T
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    According to IMDB's "Trivia," the stamps are fictional.

    "The stamps depicted in the film are fictional counterparts of actual rare stamps, but have their values raised by one. The stamps they represent are the Swedish orange 3 skilling, the "Hawaiian Missionaries" 2 cent blue and the 81 para blue Romanian "cap de bour" on blue paper, in total worth about USA$3.6 Million in 2007."

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    This is the sort of info you can find out from google.

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