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Lot# 3772 - Auction 222-226

  • Lot# : 3772 New Guinea

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    Provisional Issue / GRI and Value 5½ mm. Apart 1915: 3 s. on 3 m. violet-black, Setting 7, probably position 2 but this cannot be confirmed due to the lack of known multiples, an unused example without gum, of perfect centering and deep colour, variety "No Stop after "I" in G.R.I.", an outstanding stamp, unrecorded by Gibbs. A great rarity of the issue and probably unique. Signed Holcombe. Cert. BPA (2017) Gi = £ 38'000.rnrnProvenance: Corinphila sale 83, Sept 1991, lot 8055.rn                        Harmers, London, 24 July 1997, lot 224.
    Starting bid : 7,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 11,500 CHF