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Lot# 3704 - Auction 222-226

  • Lot# : 3704 New Guinea

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    Setting 4 / GRI and Value 3½-4 mm. Apart 1914 (Oct 17): 5 s. on 2 m. blue, ERROR OF SURCHARGE, Setting 4, position type 3, an unused example of excellent centering and good colour, some minor aging (due to dampness when the Bute collection, stored in a London safe deposit, was watered after a fire during the 'Blitz' of London by the Luftwaffe) and a barely perceptible hinge thin of no great significance, large part og. Gibbs records just 4 unused and no used examples (page 69), this being the example illustrated in Gibbs on page 71. Just 113 of the 2 mark values were overprinted. A very famous and exceedingly rare stamp. Signed Holcombe. Cert. Philatelic Foundation (1959) and Holcombe (1993) Gi = £ 45'000.rnrnProvenance: Collection Marquess of Bute, RL, London, 29 April 1959, lot 49.rn                   Corinphila sale 118, 27 Oct 1999, lot 7127.
    Starting bid : 10,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 17,000 CHF