Losnr. 3191 - 205.-209. Auktion
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Losnr. : 3191 Nepal
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Bow & Two Kukri's Issue 1917: ½ a. orange-vermilion, Setting 6, the magnificent block of 32 unused, being the lower half of the sheet of 64 subjects, showing position 57 with inverted cliché and consequent tête-bêche variety (just 4 examples of this variety are known). Some wear in margins but a great rarity of South East Asian philately with no more than 100 examples known in unused condition - this block, the largest recorded unused multiple, thus representing a third of the available examples. Unique Scott 11+11a = $ 56'000/Gi = £ 38'400.
Provenance: Collection W. O'Sullivan (Jan 1921); Collection H. P. Watts, Jharipani, India; Collection L. E. Dawson, Indian Native States (Jan 10, 1967), lot 468.
Note: The top left of the 'O'Sullivan' sheet, a block of 24 (6 x 4) was in the Heddergott collection (March 20, 1980), lot 139.Ausruf : 20.000 CHFZuschlag : nicht verkauft -
