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Auction: 13046 - The J. B. Bloom Collection of South Africa
Lot: 2191

(x) South Africa
1961-67 Definitives
No Watermark
3c. Burchell's Gonolek in a lower margin vertical strip of three showing major perforation shift and dry print of the deep blue, the lower stamp virtually omitted, the stamp above partial omission and the stamp above showing the margin line, unmounted mint but with vertical crease through all stamps. Photo

Note: The missing deep blue results in the loss of the value, country name, inscriptions and much of the bird detail. The error occurred completely on rows three, four and five of sheet number 7380 and partially on rows two and six. It also exists from the bottom row of a miscut sheet with a down shift of red. It is unknown if the entire row was affected or survives as the error was unrecorded in this format prior to its appearance at a July 2008 IPS auction in Johannesburg where a gum-damaged strip (comprising one example completely missing deep blue) sold for ZAR 40,250. It is possible the IPS strip, and any similar vertical strips if they exist, came from a proof sheet given the tatty appearance and the fact the item appears to have been miscut, has a significant down shift of red, and a weak printing of deep blue

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Sold for
£420