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  • Lot# : 4077 Jamaica

    1916 (Sept-Dec): WAR / STAMP. ½ d. blue-green, the famous unused horizontal pair with part sheet margin at right, variety "Overprint Omitted" on right hand stamp and thus from Row 19 or 20, stamp 12, fresh and very fine, superb large part og. John G.M. Davis recorded just 'seven or eight' examples in "War Tax Stamps" on page 242. An extremely rare variety in the foremost quality Gi = £ 6'000.rnProvenance: Collection Bob Swarbrick, Cavendish, Derby, 29 Sept 1995, lot 430.rn 
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,400 CHF