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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 191

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 vertical pair, R.6/1-7/1, variety surcharge double, one albino clearly offset on reverse, R.6/1 Type 7 with small second "z" and R.7/1 Type 6 with broken arm to "r", nearly full original gum with the lower stamp apparently unmounted. A rare multiple. Signed Holcombe. S.G. 30D, 30l, £1,600+. Photo

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£550