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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 1751

Swaziland 1889-92 Overprinted on Stamps of Transvaal Government Reprints made in 1894 1/2d. grey, 1d. carmine and 2d. olive-bistre (marginal from the foot of the sheet), all with stop after "Swaziland", each in a block of four with the 1/2d. and 1d. showing mixed round and square stops, the 2d. with round stops, fresh unused with large part original gum. A fine and very rare set in blocks. Holcombe Certificate (1996). PhotoR Estimate £ 1,500-2,000 Note: Only ten sheets of each of these three values were printed, probably only one sheet of the 1/2d. with inverted overprint provenance: Douglas Roth Reference Collection

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