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Auction: 16025 - The Graham Cooper Collection of King George VI Stamps
Lot: 623

(x) Malta
1948-53 Self-Government Issue
1½d. green, variety albino overprint, neatly cancelled by virtually complete Valletta 4 May 1954 double-ring datestamp; one shortish perf. at foot as usual for all examples of this very rare variety. R.P.S.. Certificate (1984). S.G. 237ba, £18,000. Photo

Note: About ten examples of this variety are recorded, all of which are believed to have been used on commercial mail

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£4,800