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Lot# 3712 - Auction 222-226

  • Lot# : 3712 New Guinea

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    Setting 4 or 5 / GRI and Value 5 mm. Apart 1914 (Dec 16): 2 d. on 10 pf. carmine, the famous used example with error of surcharge ".GR.I. / 1d.", surcharged with wrong value and with stop before "G" and no stop after the "G", some paper adherence on reverse and cancelled by part Stephansort cds in blue. Just 2 or 3 used examples recorded (Gibbs 18ea, see page 77), this being the Bute example, with a slight imprint where the full stop after "1d." would be. A major rarity Gi = £ 11'000.rnrnProvenance: Collection Marquess of Bute, RL, London, 29 April 1959, lot 98.
    Starting bid : 3,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,000 CHF