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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: 793

Straits Settlements
1880 (Aug.) "5/cents." on 8c. orange, a block of four with margin at foot, [51-52/57-58], showing Types 14 (2) and 15 (2), [58] shows the very rare variety large stop, fine and fresh unmounted mint. A desirable positional piece. S.G. 42-43, £700+. Photo

provenance:
Admiral George C. Dyer, November 1984
George Bloch, May 1996

Sold for
SG$2,100