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Auction: 163 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1186

#237a, 1915 First Peking Printing $2 Blue and black, Center Inverted, position 6 in the sheet of 50, a mint example featuring a luxuriant color and being brilliantly fresh, a bit centered to lower left and still within clear and large margins, this being the characteristic of the first horizontal row of the sheet, original gum, very lightly hinged, a few short perforations at left not detracting from this famous rarity, one of the 'Four Treasures of the Republic', a major gem of Chinese philately; 1964 Friedl Certificate and the stamp signed by Bloch, 2002 Philatelic Foundation certificate; (Chan 245a).

Sold for
$67,500