NewsBiscuit » Sothebys http://www.newsbiscuit.com The news before it happens... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Newspaper with mistake fetches £250k at auction http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/07/02/newspaper-with-mistake-fetches-gbp250k-at-auction/ http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/07/02/newspaper-with-mistake-fetches-gbp250k-at-auction/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:55 +0000 Fredd http://www.newsbiscuit.com/?p=15110 A rare copy of The Guardian containing a printing error fetched a record £250,000 at auction yesterday. Some 20,000 copies of the paper were printed in 1992 before the mistake was noticed. Most of the defective copies were immediately pulped but a small number found their way into the hands of collectors.

The rare copies had a mistake in the story at the bottom of page 12, about trees. The word ‘government’ was wrongly printed with a capital ‘G’. The defective copies, dubbed the ‘Grauniad Grey’, were initially changing hands for £500, but now, seventeen years later, copies in mint condition are worth a great deal more.

The previous record for a defective newspaper was set in 2007 when an issue of the Financial Times containing ‘stranglewank’ misspelt as two separate words, fetched £200,000.
Fredd

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