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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 919

(x) Newfoundland
1887-88 New Colours, 5c. deep blue block of fifty (10x5) with full sheet margins at left and right showing complete imprints, rich colour and fresh mint with the stamps remaining unmounted; minor fault in right margin otherwise fine and a spectacular multiple. S.G. 53, £5,500+

provenance:
Sir Gawaine Baillie, May 2006

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Estimate
£1,500 to £1,800