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Lot# 3176 - 205-209 Auction

  • Lot# : 3176 Nepal

    1901/07: Native medium wove paper, 1 a. bright ultramarine, Setting 27, First State, a complete unused sheet of 64 in a vivid shade, with position 64 showing rounded corner and re-cut position 24 with a fine impression of the vignette; inverted clichés on positions 15, 18, 23, 27, 37, 40, 41, 51 and 64 and the consequent tête-bêche pairs. Rare Scott 23+23a = $ 1'400+/Gi = £ 1'400+.

    Provenance: Major Evans (March 1906).
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 440 CHF