Lot# 3964 - Auction 227-233

Setting 2 / GRI and Value 5 mm. Apart 1914 (Dec 16): 3 d. on 25 pf. black & red on yellow, Setting 2, position 2, a used example of good colour, fresh and fine, cancelled by large part RABAUL / NEW BRITAIN oval datestamp (Gibbs type 8) in violet. A scarce stamp. Signed A. Diena, David Field. Cert. BPA (2018). Gi = £ 550.rnProvenance: Collection Marquess of Bute, RL, London, 29 April 1959; Collection Mathew Bennett, New York, 12 Nov 2004, lot 163.