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Auction: 11001 - Winter Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 389

India 1854 Issue Four Annas First Printing, Head Die I, Frame Die I The Famous Inverted Head Variety 4a. deep blue and red, variety head inverted, Frame [3], Head [10], the head printed in a rich deep, almost indigo, shade, the frame in a dull red shade often associated with this variety, margins in places with the frame-lines touched in places and a little trimmed away at right, neatly cancelled with diamond of nine bars; tear at foot that barely affects the fine appearance of this iconic stamp. S.G. 18a. Photo Estimate £ 40,000-50,000 provenance: Found in an old album among a collection which was sent by the collector´s heir for auction Sold at auction in Austria as a collection, 1984 Christie´s Robson Lowe, September 1985 Christie´s Robson Lowe, December 1988 Private Treaty sale to an undisclosed collector at "India ´89" literature: Signet, Vol. 8, No. 1, page 32, April-June 1985 The Philatelic Exporter, Vol. 44, No. 3, 31 March 1989

Sold for
£80,000