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Lot# 3107 - 205-209 Auction

  • Lot# : 3107 Nepal

    1886/90: 4 a. green, Setting 4, a complete reconstructed unused sheet of 64 subjects, undoubtedly from the same original sheet, cut into blocks of twelve (2) and eight (4) and two horizontal strips of four (positions 1-8), with full marginal inscriptions at top and showing position 54 with inverted cliché within a tête-bêche block of eight at lower right. Clear impression on thick native paper, some minor aging but a great rarity with just three sheets recorded. Illustrated in Hellrigl & Vignola on page 163 Gi = £ 9'000+.

    Provenance: Collection Jochen Heddergott (March 20, 1980), lot 70.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,000 CHF