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Auction: 169 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 318

S.G. #198a, 200a, 1936 5m and 15m Coil stamps, lot comprised of mint strips of four, the 15m being a paste-up, a set of bottom margin mint blocks of four with of the same two values with inverted control numbers, these having been prepared for use as coils in the same perforation as the original set, but test proved the perforation was inadequate for use in coil machines and was changed to 13½x14, this special printing is only recognizable by the inverted control numbers, also included are two registered covers to England (), one with coil strips of four and the other with inverted control blocks of four of each, stamps o.g. or n.h., very fine lot; extremely rare as there can exist only a few such blocks of the 1936 coils.

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