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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 236

The Large Format Stamps and Overprints
Settings 2 and 3
"r" Errors and Varieties

Inverted "r" with Daun's capital "Z", thick sans-serif first "a" and normal second "z"
3r. brown and green horizontal pair, the left-hand stamp with error, the right-hand stamp with antique capital "Z", normal second "z" and dropped "r", large part original gum; left-hand stamp with a gum crease, otherwise fine. Five examples recorded mint, one in the Royal Philatelic Collection, and four used examples recorded, one in the Royal Philatelic Collection. B.P.A. Certificate (2018). S.G. 20k/A, £6,142. Photo

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Estimate
£3,500 to £4,000