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Auction: 166 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 572

Hellrigl #7b, c. 1886-89 1a Dark blue, early printings on native paper of good quality, imperforate, tete-beche pair setting 8, position 51-55/59-63, reconstructed bottom margin block of ten (5x2) consisting of a block of six at left (faint horiz. crease in bottom row) and block of four, shows all three tete-beche pairs in this setting and only in this setting, inverted cliches are 52, 59 and 62 but not 63, unused without gum as issued, full to extra-wide margins all around, rich color, very fine marginal position block that is crucial to setting 8 Scott #7, a; S.G. #7, a, £2,360+.

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$425