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Auction: 18009 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series
Lot: 1642

St. Lucia
1949 6c. orange lower left corner vertical pair, variety imperforate between stamp and margin, neatly tied by Soufriere datestamp on 1949 (1 Oct.) first day of issue envelope to Castries. Extremely rare. B.P.A. Certificate (1956). Murray Payne 32a, £17,000+. Photo

Note: A single sheet was discovered imperforate between left margin and first vertical row of stamps on the first day of issue at Soufriere. Because of the sheet make up (15x8) only eight examples of this stamp can exist. It is known that they were divided up into three pairs and two singles and placed on five covers postmarked "soufriere 1 oc 49"

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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000