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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: 784

Straits Settlements
India used in Straits Settlements
1859 (16 Oct.) entire (faults) from Singapore to Samarang, showing manuscript "30", bearing 1856 4a. black on white paper bisected diagonally (defect at foot) tied by clear "B/172" and showing framed "singapore/ship letter/paid" d.s. in red. Very rare, one of nine recorded single 4a. bisects on cover (two on white paper) and one of two recorded bisect covers to Netherlands East Indies. B.P.A. Certificate (1986). S.G. Z76a, £60,000. Photo

provenance:
"Koh-i-Noor", 1986
Spink Singapore auction, June 2000

Estimate
SG$50,000 to SG$60,000