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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1610

China
1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue
3 Candareens, Setting V
3ca. scarlet in a compete sheet of twenty, without margins as usual. With full original gum showing the typical light gum ageing but still in brilliant condition for this sheet. The new cliché 26 is in position [10]

provenance: Sir Percival David, December 1964



It is thought that there are only five complete sheets of this setting


The other sheets are

Sir Percival David, July 1970

Warren G. Kauder, November 1971, Paul Hock Octobwer 1983, A. Mocchi October 1984 and James Whang

Philip Ireland, May 1989 and Beckeman

H.B.R. Clarke, April 1953

Sold for
HK$280,000