Lot# 3765 - Auction 222-226

Provisional Issue / GRI and Value 5 mm. Apart 1915: 1 d. on 2 d. on 20 pf. ultramarine, Setting II, position 5, a fine used example with variety "Surcharged on 2 d. on 20 pf. with No Stop after "d" variety", fresh and very fine, neatly cancelled by oval RABAUL / NEW BRITAIN datestamp in violet (Gibbs type 8). An extremely rare stamp. Signed Herbert Bloch; cert. BPA (2017) Gi = £ 4'000.rnrnProvenance: Collection Colonel E. H. R. Green, Harmer Rooke, New York, March 25-29, 1946, lot 868.rn                        Spink, London, 6-7 Dec 2006, lot 1255.rn