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Lot# 4095 - Auction 250-256

  • Lot# : 4095 Jamaica

    Prepared for use but not Issued 1921: 'Abolition of Slavery 1st August 1838' 6 d. red & dull blue-green, wmk. Multiple Crown CA upright, the magnificent unused example, corner marginal from upper left of the sheet, of fabulous fresh colour, wrinkles on full unmounted og. A truly wonderful and iconic stamp of the utmost rarity - this stamp being the sole example in private hands Gi = £ 60'000.rnNote: The stamp was never issued due to the contentious political nature of the subject. Whilst two blocks of four of the wmk. Multiple Script CA stamps were retained, all the others were burnt. One block was split up (a single corner example from upper right of sheet was in the Byron R. Cameron collection, lot 218) and the second block of four from lower right of the sheet remains intact and resides in the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The Multiple Crown CA example was possibly retained by the Governor or the Head Postmaster of Jamaica and remains unique. The stamp offered here is an entirely unique world-wide rarity.rnProvenance: Collection Lawrence Kimball, Harmers, London, 26/27 March 1962, lot 381; Spink, London, 12-13 April 2007, lot 1209, where erroneously described as having Multiple Script CA Watermark.  rnrnrn 
    Starting bid : 35,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 35,000 CHF