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Auction: 14026 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia including the Peter Cockburn Award Winning Collection of Straits Settlements and Malayan States Revenue Stamps
Lot: 677

Perak
Revenue Stamps
1880-90 Overprinted "PERAK"

Documents
1890 (12 Dec.) Memo. of Lease of mining land issued by the Government of Perak, bearing "perak" 15mm. long $5 tied by blue crayon and with central punch hole. After the land had been worked the lease was surrendered and a Federated Malay States $2 (surface faults) was applied to pay the duty for the Surrender of a Lease. Very scarce, one of two known. Photo

Sold for
SG$380