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Lot# 4107 - Auction 234-243

  • Lot# : 4107 Cape of Good Hope

    De La Rue Printing 1863/64: 1 d. deep carmine-red, 4 d. blue, 6 d. bright mauve and 1 s. bright emerald-green; the set of four values, all excluding the 1 d. in superb large margined square pairs, the 1 d. being a severed and rejoined pair with some thinning and slightly soiled margin, all individually overprinted SPECIMEN (Samuel type D5) in black. Fresh colours and each with some paper adherence on reverse, small part og. A splendid and extremely rare set. Ex Gascoyne.rnrnProvenance: Collection Dale-Lichtenstein, Harmers, Nov 1989, lot 50; Collection 'Salisbury', RL, Sept 1995, lot 1088.
    Starting bid : 10,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 23,000 CHF