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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 2174

x Indian Feudatory States - Jammu and Kashmir The Jammu Rectangulars 1874-76 Special Printings in Watercolour on Native Paper 1a. emerald-green unused, a fresh and lightly printed example in the duller of the two shades that this stamp exists in; trace of a horizontal crease, otherwise fine. Only a handful of unused examples of this exceptionally rare stamp exist of which this is probably the finest. The most famous and spectacular of the Jammu rarities. S.G. 69, £3,750. Photo Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 provenance: H.D.S. Haverbeck, 1973

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