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Auction: 15042 - Windward Islands and British Guiana, British Honduras, Cayman Islands and Jamaica from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 576

Tobago
1886-89 Surcharge Issue
"½ penny" on 2½d. dull blue vertical pair, variety lower stamp surcharge omitted, large part original gum. Extremely rare with only six such pairs recorded. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 26c, £15,000. Photo

Note: Of the six known pairs, one is the wide spacing variety and, of the remaining five pairs, one is in The Royal Philatelic Collection and one is in the Tapling Collection at the British Library

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Sold for
£6,500