In Popular Culture
- The Guyana 1c was used as a plot device in the 1941 film, "The Saint in Palm Springs." In the film its value was stated to be $65,000.
- The stamp was sought after in the 1952 Carl Barks comic "The Gilded Man", in which Donald Duck, the philatelist, said it was "worth more than fifty thousand dollars!"
- The stamp was mentioned in John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series "The Scarlet Ruse" (1972) as being worth $325,000.
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