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Lot# 5040 - Auction 298-307

  • Lot# : 5040 Gambia

    1886/93: 4 d. deep brown, wmk. Crown CA sideways, perf. 14, an unused complete sheet of fifteen subjects, variety "Watermark Upright", sheet with first comb perf., and stained in sheet margin at left and outer margin at right, creased through perforations but the stamps superb with twelve unmounted og. A major rarity - Stanley Gibbons only list this stamp in used condition - catalogued at £ 4'250 each; this sheet of the utmost rarity and entirely unique Gi = £ 63'750 (for used).rnProvenance: Harmers, London, 9 Jan 1979, lot 121.
    Starting bid : 15,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 38,000 CHF