Lot# 3916 - Auction 227-233

Setting 3 / GRI and Value 4 mm. Apart 1914 (Oct 17): 5 s. on 5 m. carmine & black, Setting 3, position type 3, a fine used example, marginal from base of sheet, paper slightly aged, cancelled by 'Stephansort' datestamp in blue (Gibbs type 6). Only 102 of the 5 mark values (Gi 15 and 30) were overprinted. A most attractive example of an exceedingly rare stamp, especially so in used condition. Cert. Holcombe Gi = £ 16'000.rnrnProvenance: Corinphila sale 84, Oct 1992, lot 6324.rn                        Harmers, London, 10 March 1998, lot 1392.