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Auction: 15042 - Windward Islands and British Guiana, British Honduras, Cayman Islands and Jamaica from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 590

Tobago
1896 Surcharge Issue
"½d/postage" on Fiscal 4d. lilac and carmine, three blocks of four with two from the corners of the pane showing current or plate number, from the rare setting 2 with no wide spacing variety, heavily toned gum, which is not unusual for these stamps, and the current number block with brown mark on the reverse of one stamp. S.G. 33, £1,200+

provenance:
"Charlotteville", November 1984
H.P. Manus, January 1933

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Sold for
£325