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Auction: 17026 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1677

(x) Russia
1857 Tiflis Local
6k. embossed in colourless relief on thick white paper, unused without gum, margins all round, generally fine and sharp embossing; a few very minor surface marks. A superb and wonderful recently discovered World Rarity which had remained unrecognised in an old Oppens album in New Zealand for the last 100 years or so. The first stamp of Russia and one of only six recorded genuine examples, two of which are in institutional collections. With R.P.S. Certificate (2016). Photo

note:
The six recorded examples are:
1 - Ex Fabergé, Stibbe and Mikulski
2 - Ex Fabergé, Goss and Mikulski
3 - Ex Fabergé, Sir John Wilson and Mikulski
4 - Ex Szymanowski, currently in the Smithsonian Institute
5 - Ex Schmidt, currently in the Berlin Postal Museum
6 - Offered above

Please see the September 2017 edition of the "London Philatelist" for an extensive article regarding this stamp.

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Sold for
£165,000