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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1566

China
1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue
1 Candareen Imperforate
A complete sheet of twenty five from Setting I in deep green on thin paper, with full original gum. light horizontal crease in the top margin and part hinge remainders in the corners, there is some light thinning in the upper right corner.


A fine and important sheet in a fine state of preservation. It is thought that there are only five complete sheets remaining intact

It appears that there were ten imperorate sheets of Setting I produced. Of these five have been split into blocks and singles.


The records of the five complete sheets are as follows:


Adolphus Diercking, Mocchi, A and S Beckerman, Lam Man Yin


James Starr


Sir Percival David October 1970


Warren G. Attwood, Richard Canman October 1972. Philip Ireland May 1989


Meiso Mizuhara


Philip Ireland records the imperforate 1 candareen from Settings I and II froms shades between yellow-green to dark green both with and without gum


For a horizontal pair, please see lot 1527

Sold for
HK$650,000