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Lot# 6736 - Auction 218-221

  • Lot# : 6736 New Guinea

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    Setting 2 / GRI and Value 5 mm. Apart 1914 (Dec 16): 5 d. on 50 pf. black & purple on buff, Setting 2, position 7, an unused example of excellent colour and centering, variety "Thin 5 in 5 d.", the "5" being from a different font with straight top, fresh and very fine, superb og. Gibbs states, page 89, that 13 examples have been recorded to date (3 are used), with three of the unused housed in the Australian War Memorial Museum, thus just seven unused examples remain in private hands. Signed Holcombe Gi = £ 1'100.rnrnProvenance: Corinphila sale 80, March 1990, lot 6710.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : 700 CHF