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Auction: 14024 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the Award-winning Collection of Province of Otago Postal History formed by Greg Francis, and the Cliff Wheatley Rhodesias
Lot: 1986

(x) Papua
1929-30 Air, Ash printing 3d. black and blue-green lower left corner vertical strip of five, the top stamp with variiety overprint omitted, unused with large part original gum, the top vertical pair severed and rejoined with hinge and the top pair with perfs re-enforced. An extremely rare error and an exhibition showpiece. R.P.S.V. Certificate (2014). S.G. 114/114b, £7500+. Photo

Note: A single sheet with the overprint omitted on the fifth and sixth horizontal rows was discovered in 1929 by the London dealer, Richard Roberts. The sheet was divided into five upper strips of 5 and five lower strips of three.

literature: "Papua Airmail Overprint Varieties 1929-30" by Raymond Kelly, pages 17-23

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Estimate
£5,000 to £6,000