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  • Lot# : 3771 New Guinea

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    Provisional Issue / GRI and Value 5½ mm. Apart 1915: 2 s. on 2 m. blue, Setting 7, a fine unused example, well centred, slightly aged due to Bute provenance and the 'Blitz' damage incurred at the safe deposit box, with variety "Overprint Double, One Inverted", nevertheless of good colour and large part og. Gibbs states 'one unused example has been recorded. It is ex Bute'. An exceptional British Colonial rarity, and unique. Signed Holcombe. Cert. BPA (2017) Gi = £ 55'000.rnrnProvenance: Collection Marquess of Bute, RL, London, 29 April 1959, lot 227.rn                        Corinphila sale 118, Oct 1999, lot 7197.
    Starting bid : 20,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 20,000 CHF