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Lot# : 1707 Romania
81 parale blue on blueish wove paper, unused example without gum. Fresh colour, touched at base, otherwise with good to large margins, two nearly invisible horizontal bends ironed out, small nick nearby the '81'. An extremely rare stamp with a printrun of 709, this fine example illustrated in Heimbüchler handbook I page 369. Cert. Heimbüchler (1982) Gi = £ 40'000 / Mi = EUR 42'000.
Provenance: Corinphila auction 56 (October 1973), lot 4627; Grobe auction October 1982, lot 5083.Starting bid : 4,000 CHFHammer price : 7,500 CHF