Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 1075
Cape of Good Hope 1855-63 White Paper Used 1d. deep rose-red pair with good to enormous margins, cancelled with a superb crisp strike of the triangular obliterator, wonderful colour and of outstanding appearance. Superb and surely one of the the finest pairs of this stamp known. S.G. 8b, £500+. Photo Estimate £ 600-800 provenance: Charles Lathrop Pack "Saldanha", November 1984
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£850