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Auction: 1013 - The Alexander Reid Collections of Antiqua, Cayman islands and Ceylon
Lot: 24

Cayman Islands 1907 (November) Provisionals " 1/2D" on 5/- salmon and green, variety surcharge inverted, fresh and fine unused with large part original gum. Extremely rare and one of the world´s great 20th Century rarities. B.P.A. Certificate (1992). S.G. 18a, £60,000. Photo Estimate £ 30,000-40,000 Note: Only three examples are believed to exist, one of which, in pair with normal, is in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen. provenance: Dale Lichtenstein, September 1990 Edgar J. Marston III, March 1992

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