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Lot# 3483 - Auction 257-264

  • Lot# : 3483 Guatemala

    1871 (March 1): 5 c. light brown on buff, an unused block of forty (8 x 5) from the lower left corrner of the sheet with oval 'Contrôle / T.P.', in margin, positions 101-108 / 141-148, and showing, on position 103 the tête-bêche variety, fresh and very fine, large part or unmounted og. An extraordinary block with the tête-bêche variety contained in the largest known multiple of the 5 centavos value. Unique.rnProvenance: Collection Langstroff; Collection Norman Hubbard, Stanley Gibbons, New York, 17 March 1981, lot 102.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,400 CHF