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Auction: 14029 - Rhodesia Featuring Arms and Admiral Issues from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 24

Rhodesia
1896 Overprinted On Cape Provisional Issue
The "company" Omitted Variety
4d. blue horizontal pair, [5-6] of the setting, variety "company" completely omitted, part and large part original gum respectively; the right-hand stamp with tiny thin at left perfs., and a couple of other trivial imperfections though of fine appearance. The only recorded multiple of this very rare and important variety. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 62a, £19,000+. Photo

provenance:
N. Calnan, 1964
Harry Birkhead, June 1986

literature:
Nos. 10 and 11 in "Rhodesia - The Second Provisional Issue of 1896" by Colin Hoffman, FRPS, L, published in "The London Philatelist", 1986

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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000