Lot# 6721 - Auction 218-221

Setting 3 / GRI and Value 4 mm. Apart 1914 (Oct 17): 5 s. on 5 m. carmine & black, Setting 3, position type 3, an unused example from this rare setting, marginal from the top of the sheet of 20 subjects, variety "No Stop after "R" and "I" of GRI", fresh and very fine with trivial aging on the margin above, slight reinforceement to perfs. at top, otherwise a spectaular example of this exceedingly rare stamp, just 4 unused examples are recorded by Gibbs (page 70) one of which is housed in the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Cert. Holcombe (1995) Gi = £ 18'000.rnrnProvenance: Collection Marquess of Bute, RL, London, 29 April 1959, lot 44.rn                        Harmers, London, 10 March 1998, lot 1391.

TONE SPOT ON GUM. START PRICE REMAINS THE SAME