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  • Lot# : 3699 New Guinea

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    Setting 12 / GRI and Value 6 mm. Apart 1914 (Oct 17): 5 d. on 50 pf. black & purple on buff, Setting 12, position D, a fine unused example, centred to right, but of good colour from this rare Setting, with variety "Break at top of "G" in GRI, "R" with broken cross-bar at top", fresh and very fine with large part og. See Gibbs page 40, a rarity, especially so on this value. Signed Holcombe, Stolow. Opinion Holcombe (1992) Gi = £ 850+.rnrnProvenance: Corinphila sale 84, Oct 1992, lot 6312.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 550 CHF