Hepburn stamps fetch €430k for charity

A rare sheet of 10 stamps depicting Audrey Hepburn fetched €430,000 at a charity auction in Berlin, two-thirds of which will go to help educate children in sub-Saharan Africa.

The mint-condition sheet of 10 stamps featuring Hepburn, a coy smile on her face and a long, black cigarette holder dangling from her lips, brought a profitable outcome to a botched stamp series that should have been destroyed years ago – and evokes Hepburn’s starring role in the 1963 thriller Charade, in which the characters chase a set of rare stamps.