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Auction: 1013 - The Alexander Reid Collections of Antiqua, Cayman islands and Ceylon
Lot: 26

Cayman Islands 1907 (November) Provisionals " 1/2D" on 5/- salmon and green horizontal pair, the left stamp with surcharge omitted, fresh and fine mint. Extremely rare, another of the 20th Century´s great errors and the cornerstone of Cayman Islands philately. B.P.A. Certificate (1992). S.G. 18d, £75,000. Photo Estimate £ 45,000-50,000 Note: Only four examples are believed to exist, one of which is in the collection of Her majesty The Queen. provenance: Dale Lichtenstein, September 1990 Edgar J. Marston III, March 1992

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