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Auction: 166 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 247

Unitrade #8TCii, 1858 ½d Black trial color plate proof on India on card, overprinted "SPECIMEN" vertically in carmine, top sheet-margin block of four, pos 7-8, 19-20, ample to huge margins all around, including showing the frame lines of the adjacent stamps at right, extremely fine; scarcer than the catalog value would indicate; Cat. value $1,200

Sold for
$325