A sheet of Chinese stamps commemorating the 1980 year of the monkey brought in 1.4 million Hong Kong dollars (US$184,400), a new record, at an auction Sunday.

The sale took less than a minute, said Louis Mangin, director of Zurich Asia, the auction firm that organized it. According to him, a bidder shouted out HK$1.2 million as soon as it started, and the winning bid