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Lot# 6765 - Auction 218-221

  • Lot# : 6765 New Guinea

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    Setting 3 / GRI and Value 3½-4 mm. Apart 1914 (Dec 16): 5 s. on 5 m. carmine & black, Setting 3, position 4, a fine used example, marginal from right of the sheet with "G" of G.R.I. also seen at the edge of the margin at right, used on 1915 cover within Rabaul and tied by RABAUL / NEW BRITAIN datestamp (Jan 9) in violet (Gibbs type 8). A beautiful and exceedingly rare usage of this stamp on cover Gi = £ 15'000 off cover.rnrnProvenance: Corinphila sale 49, April 1963, lot 856.
    Starting bid : 5,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 9,500 CHF