Originally published at: The World's largest ball of stamps is in Boys Town, Nebraska | Boing Boing
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The origins of this quirky anomaly date back to 1953, when a group known as the Boys Town Stamp Collecting Club started to consolidate the less-valuable stamps using a golf ball as a base.
Ironically, those turned out to be highly valuable stamps. (No, not really, but I’m amusing myself imagining a heist narrative about stealing the biggest ball of stamps in the world to recover millions of dollars worth of stamps hidden in the middle…)
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I’d watch that movie. You could put in all the tropes from heist movies and most of the tropes from action movies. And the McGuffin could be a code or formula for something incredible important written on the back of a stamp to smuggle it out but got mailed with the wrong letter by accident.
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