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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 189

The "2½" Surcharges
Stamps Used For Postal Purposes
15 November 1896 - Surcharge Setting 3
Types 6, 7 and 8 in red on 1½a. sepia
1½a. sepia Type 6 with surcharge in unusual dull red shade, R.1/2 variety Roman "1" in "½" and small second "z", part original gum; fine. Scarce. Holcombe Certificate (1991). S.G. 29D/k, £900. Photo

Note: This variety occurred in four positions in the half pane of sixty, R.1/1, R.1/2, R.2/3 and R.8/5

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£240