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  • Lot# : 10053 Rhodesia

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    1905: Victoria Falls, Waterlow composite value imperforate Printer's Sample Proof sheet of nine (141 x 108 mm.) with 1 d. (2), 2½ d. (2), 5 d. (2), 1 s., 2 s. 6 d. and 5 s. values, engraved in olive-green with each Proof overprinted 'WATERLOW & SONS LTD. / SPECIMEN.' diagonally in black, unused without gum. Vertical crease in right margin but of great rarity: just three, perhaps four sheets are recorded.rnProvenance: Stanley Gibbons, London, 18-20 June 1978, lot 983.rnNote: A similar sheet is illustrated in "Rhodesian Philately" by Trotter, Hoffman & Flanaghan on page 420.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 9,500 CHF