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Auction: 19008 - The Lam Man Yin Collection of Small Dragons, Dowagers and 1897 Surcharges
Lot: 768

1897 New Currency Surcharges
Large Figures Surcharge, Wide Setting
First Printing
The Golden Dragon

10c. on 12ca. deep orange, right pane [4], part to large part original gum. There is a light horizontal crease and a couple of faint tone marks, well centred and of good colour. An appealing example of this rare and elusive stamp. Signed by Peter Holcombe. S.G. 55; Chan 54. Photo

provenance:
E.D. Finney, May 1952

Dr Rober C.H. Lee, November 1963

J.K.C. Wong, October 1974


The unused 'Golden Dragon' is one of the rarest of the basic Dowager surcharge stamps, only surpassed by the 'Emerald Lady' (2c. on 2ca. narrow setting) of which only two stamps have been recorded. From my study of this stamp I have verified that there are 15 unused stamps recorded (this does not include the block of four which was lost with Lyons Livingston in a plane crash in 1972), some of these have trimmed or reperforated lower margin from the foot of the sheet.


金龍票:洋銀洋銀壹角蓋於壹錢貳分銀,右格[4],保留大部份原膠,票有輕微橫皺及有三兩㸃極小暗斑,圖案居中,顏色艷麗,實乃這枚被稱為"金龍票"的珍罕票中之上品,不容錯過; 有Peter Holcombe簽名._x000D_ _x000D_ 源流:1952年5月E.d. Finney,1963年11月C.H. Lee,1974年10月J.K.C. Wong; "金龍票"新票是慈壽加蓋票中至為珍罕者之一,它的珍罕性,只有記錄兩枚而被俗稱'翡翠姐"(洋銀貳分蓋於貳分銀慈壽票,窄版式)所超越. 以我的考証所知這枚慈壽"金龍票"有記錄的新票共15枚( 這不包括Lyons Livingsto所持有的四方連在飛機意外中損失了的在內),這批票中有些齒位曾被修剪又或從版票底部中的下邊紙重新打孔.

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HK$450,000