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Auction: 166 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 587

Hellrigl #33, a, 1917-30 ½a Black on native paper, imperforate, complete sheet of 64, setting 7, used sheet with well struck head office telegraphic cancels of Kathmandu, this setting is characterized by five inverted cliches in positions 1, 6, 7, 8 and 57, interestingly this is the same configuration as setting 12, however the two can be told apart by the transferred cliche flaw of "flattened base" which appears in position 7 in this setting and in position 1 in setting 12, clean color and quite clear impression, normal horiz. and vert. folds in the center of the sheet, otherwise very fine; this is one of the scarcer settings of the ½a value in the telegraph period; Scott #10, a, $1,004.00+; S.G. #34, a, £674+.

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