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Auction: 11026 - The Chartwell Collection - British Empire
Lot: 32

Mauritius 1848-59 "POST PAID" Issue Earliest Impressions on Thick Paper 1d. orange-vermilion on yellowish paper, [12], an extraordinary unused corner example with large to enormous margins all round and with the margin at foot showing the edge of the sheet die impression, fresh rich bright colour and sharp impression; tiny split in the top margin and shallow thinning at upper right nevertheless unquestionably one of the great rarities of the collection, with only a single unused example of this earliest impression stamp represented in both the Burrus and Kanai collections. S.G. 3, £50,000 Estimate £ 25,000-30,000 provenance: Dale Lichtenstein, Sale 1,October 1968

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£32,000