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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 237

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"
This is clearly from the same position as the misaligned "r". Hall 10a
5r. ultramarine and violet horizontal pair, the left-hand stamp with error, the right-hand stamp with antique capital "Z", normal "z" and dropped "r", large part original gum; slight separation between at top. Nine examples recorded, one in the Royal Philatelic Collection, and two used examples recorded, one in the Royal Philatelic Collection. R.P.S. (1932, signed Hall) and B.P.A. (2018) Certificates. S.G. 21k/A, £4,900. Photo

provenance:
Urs Feer/Vialou, May 1968
William Frazer, March 2004

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