From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-564987-751505
NEW YORK (UPI) -- A unique U.S. stamp stolen in 1967 and recovered
almost 40 years later has sold at auction for more than $400,000, the
auctioneer said Sunday.
Dr. Arthur K.M. Woo, a prominent collector, bought the "Ice House
Cover," Scott Trepel, president of Robert A. Siegel Auctions in New
York, said in a statement.
The item was auctioned Saturday.
The "Ice House Cover" is an envelope bearing a 90-cent Abraham Lincoln
stamp. It gets its name because it was mailed in 1873 from a Boston
ice company to its ice house in Calcutta.
The envelope was discovered in India by a U.S. collector. In 1967, it
was stolen from J. David Baker, an Indianapolis collector, by a team
of thieves targeting members of the American Philatelic Society.
The FBI recovered most of Baker's collection in 1974, but the "Ice
House Cover" remained missing. In January 2006, an elderly couple --
who said they found it while clearing out a dead relative's house --
brought it to a dealer in Chicago, wanting to know if it was worth
anything. The dealer turned it over to the FBI and Baker's widow was
eventually determined to be the rightful owner.