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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 239

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

Dropped "r" with antique capital "Z" and normal second "z"
Clearly from a different part of the setting than the "Zanziba" error and therefore could not have been an earlier state of it. The dropped "r" variety was located immediately to the right of the inverted "r" variety

2r. carmine and yellow-brown and 5r. ultramarine and violet, unused with part and large part original gum respectively. S.G. 19A, 21A., £210. Photo

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£120