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Lot# 3987 - Auction 227-233
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Lot# : 3987 New Guinea
Provisional Issue / GRI and Value 5½-6 mm. Apart 1915: 5 s. on 5 m. carmine & black, Setting 5B, a fine unused example of good centering and fresh colour, paper perhaps a tad aged, large part somewhat browned og. Illustrated in Gibbs on page 126. A magnificent example of this rare stamp, just 30 examples surcharged. Signed Herbert Bloch, A. Diena, Holcombe, Kilian. Cert. BPA (2017) Gi = £ 38'000.rnrnProvenance: Collection Robert M. Gibbs, Corinphila sale 78, 27 Sept 1988, lot 2081.rn Harmers, London, 24 July 1997, lot 225.rnrnStarting bid : 10,000 CHFHammer price : 29,000 CHF