Owner Biography
Donald Sundman
Donald Sundman owns Mystic Stamp Company in Camden N.Y., which is a mail-order postage stamp dealer, one of the largest in operation and notable for both its promotion of stamp collecting as a hobby and for its acquisition of the one-cent Z Grill, the rarest United States stamp.
At the Siegel auction of the Robert Zoellner collection in 1998, Mystic president Donald Sundman acquired one of two known specimens of the Franklin Z Grill for $935,000, at the time the highest price ever paid for a single US stamp. Subsequently Mystic featured it in company advertising and listed it for sale in the catalogs, until it was traded for the unique Inverted Jenny plate block.
At the Siegel auction of the Robert Zoellner collection in 1998, Mystic president Donald Sundman acquired one of two known specimens of the Franklin Z Grill for $935,000, at the time the highest price ever paid for a single US stamp. Subsequently Mystic featured it in company advertising and listed it for sale in the catalogs, until it was traded for the unique Inverted Jenny plate block.