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    Danube Steam Navigation Co 1870c.: Package Control Stamps, Lithographic Proofs most for "Braila-Galaz" in complete sheets of twenty subjects (4 x 5), the astonishing array of composite 40 bani + 20 bani Imperforate Proof / Colour Trial sheets (5) printed in orange, dark ochre, yellowish ochre, ochre, together with composite 40 bani + 20 bani perf. 9½ sheet printed in ochre and in light green and dull green; 20 bani Imperforate Proof / Colour Trial sheet in light green (1) and in shades of red (2, one is a reprint), non-composite 20 bani sheets perf. 9½ in light green and in dull green shade, non-composite 40 bani Imperforate Proof / Colour Trial sheets in dull green and one in red, a bright green imperf. sheet of the reprints, 40 bani original sheets perf. 9½ in the dull green shade (2); 40 bani Imperforate Proof / Colour Trial sheet in brown for "Kalaras-Ostrov-Silistria" and an original perf. 9½ sheet; 40 bani "Silistria-Ostrov-Kalaras 40 bani sheet in blue perf. 9½, 40 bani sheet "Ostrov-Kalaras-Silistria", perf. 9½ printed in yellow. Minor imperfections to one or two but most superb. A splendid and extraordinary group of 24 complete sheets.rnProvenance: Collection Denwood Kelly.rn 
    Starting bid : 1,750 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,600 CHF