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Auction: 14029 - Rhodesia Featuring Arms and Admiral Issues from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 237

Rhodesia
The Admiral Issue
The Issued Stamps
Double Plates
Head Die IIIA "White Shoulder" and IIIB, Perforated 14
Eight Pence
Mauve and dull blue green marginal horizontal strip of four from the lower left corner of the sheet, variety imperforate vertically, fresh without gum. A great rarity. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 268a, £30,000. Photo

Note: The surviving pieces of this remarkable variety are as follows:
Row 1 corner strip of three, Sir Gawaine Baillie
Row 2 marginal pair, Sir Gawaine Baillie
Row 3 strip of five, R.M. Gibbs and Sir Gawaine Baillie
Row 4 never recorded
Row 5 marginal strip of four, Ameer of Bahawalpur
Row 6 corner strip of four, offered here

provenance:
Sotheby's South Africa, March 1983

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Sold for
£9,000