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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 1291

Niger Coast 1893 (Dec.) Old Calabar Provisionals "half/penn.y" S.G. Type 5 2 1/2d. purple on blue surcharged in vermilion and showing distinct widely spaced double impression, unused with part original gum; fine and rare. Holcombe Opinion (1992). S.G. 17 var., £1,200. Photo Estimate £ 500-600

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£500