Lot# 3939 - Auction 227-233

Setting 10 / GRI and Value 5 mm. Apart 1914 (Dec 16): 8 d. on 80 pf. black & carmine on rose, Setting 10, position 2, an  unused example, marginal from top of sheet, variety "Surcharge Triple", of good colour and reasonable centering, all three surcharges being the same setting and position, fresh and fine, superb og. An extremely scarce stamp especially so with the sheet margin, Gibbs records, on page 89, a possible 15 unused examples from two different settings. Signed Herbert Bloch. Cert. Holcombe (1989) Gi = £ 9'500.rnrnProvenance: Collection Marquess of Bute, RL, London, 29 April 1959, lot 139 (right hand stamp of the corner pair).