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Lot# 4604 - Auction 274-283

  • Lot# : 4604 Bushire

    Overprinted at the British Residency, Bushire 1915 (Sept 11): Setting VI. Coronation 1 kr. black, brown & silver, the famous complete sheet of five subjects with full sheet margins all round, two or three creases largely in margins at base and vertical crease between positions 2 and 3, of wonderful fresh colour, stamps unmounted og. Only 174 stamps were issued from both Settings, a magnificent and extremely rare sheet Gi = £ 10'000+.rnrnProvenance: Collection Marquess of Bute, RL, London, 20 May 1959, lot 173.
    Starting bid : 4,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 13,000 CHF