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Auction: 11026 - The Chartwell Collection - British Empire
Lot: 142

Virgin Islands 1867 1/- Value With Crimson Frames Superimposed Extending Into Margins The Legendary "Missing Virgin" Variety 1/- black and rose-carmine, [2] with white flaw on "e" of "one", variety Figure of Virgin omitted, fresh unused without gum. Very fine and of outstanding appearance. B.P.A. Certificate (1971). S.G. 18b, £85,000 ONE OF THE WORLD´S GREATEST AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER RARITIES Estimate £ 50,000-60,000 Note: Very few examples of this major error exist. Nearly all are with trimmed perforations on one or two sides. One example resides in the Royal Philatelic Collection See "The London Philatelist", Vol. 58, page 191, for an extensive article on this remarkable error and, for further reading, prospective buyers are referred to the "British Virgin Islands Specialised Catalogue", edited by George Migliavacca, where a further detailed history of these fascinating stamps, together with a selected bibliography, appears on pages 92-93 provenance: Cecil Donne, Private Sale

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