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Auction: 13027 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 422

Ceylon
1857-64 No Watermark, Imperforate
½d. reddish lilac on blued paper block of four, large part original gum, good to large margins and lovely appearance; the upper pair with lightly creased corners and the lower pair with pinhole and light horizontal crease, otherwise fine. Extremely rare and the only mint multiple that we recall seeing. R.P.S. Certificate (1999). S.G. 16. Photo

provenance:
Admiral Harris, February 1951
G.C. Bailey, May 1962
J. Hackmey, February 2009

Sold for
£8,000