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  • Lot# : 753 Southern Rhodesia

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    1928: Waterlow 5 s. deep blue & deep blue-green, the famous example from the 1928 printing in this distinctive shade, unused with gum - only 240 stamps of the 5 s. value were printed by Waterlows for their file sheets, one sheet of 60 was filed in the Waterlow archives with the usual security punch-holes implanted, however two stamps escaped this method of mutilation, this  being one of the two stamps / archive Proofs to avoid this. Fine and extremely rare, with accompanying Robson Lowe article. Cert. Robson Lowe (1978).rnProvenance: RL, London, 11 July 1978, lot 2802.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold