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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 2346

Orange Free State 1892 (Oct.) "2 1/2d" on 3d. Ultramarine First Setting The "Schoeman" complete sheet of 240 divided in to four panes of sixty, a number with varieties including lower right pane [43] with printer´s quad after surcharge, part to large part original gum; some rows with creasing, etc., four small pieces of margin missing and lower right pane [29-36] block of four absent and replaced, nevertheless a unique group of multiples. S.G. 67, 67a, £4,560 Estimate £ 600-700 Note: The panes offered in the above lot were discovered in the collection of Mr. J. Schoeman. This sheet and further blocks found in the collection of A.C. Fenn necessitated a complete revision of Volume 1, Chapter 10 of the Buckley and Marriott handbook

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£520