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Auction: 16025 - The Graham Cooper Collection of King George VI Stamps
Lot: 517

(x) Jamaica
1938-51 Issue
5/- slate-blue and yellow-orange showing emergency use of a line perf. machine giving an irregular gauge of 14-14.15 after the De La Rue works were bombed in December 1940, a marginal example from the foot of the sheet showing Plate "1" and small part of imprint, fresh mint with trace of a hinge mark on face of margin. Rare. S.G. 132a, £7,000. Photo

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£2,100