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Auction: 14029 - Rhodesia Featuring Arms and Admiral Issues from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 286

Rhodesia
The Admiral Issue
The Issued Stamps
1917 Livingstone Provisional
Inverted SurchargesTwo panes, 120 stamps in all, with inverted surcharge, were discovered, having been purchased at the Livingstone Post Office. These panes differed in colour. One pane was rose-scarlet and this was photographed mint and intact in 1919. The other pane was rose-carmine and this was broken up in Livingstone
Rose-scarlet horizontal pair, [15-16] of the setting, surcharge inverted, [15] with spaced "n n", overprint positions [55-56] and stamp positions [5-6], fresh unmounted mint. Very rare. B.P.A. Certificate (1980). S.G. 280, a, b. Photo

Note: In all six examples with the spaced "n n" variety inverted can exist

provenance:
Sir Gawaine Baillie, September 2006

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£2,500