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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1377

(x) Cyprus
1880 (1 Apr.) Issue
1d. red Plate 208 vertical pair, KA-LA, KA variety overprint double, good fresh colour and with part (KA) to large part original gum. A great rarity with this being one of only seven of the twelve possible pairs recorded, and arguably the rarest stamp of Cyprus, there being ten examples of the pairs with and without overprint recorded. S.G. 2a, £27,000+. Photo

Note: The overprinting of the sheets of the 1d. value was carried out in two halves - rows a to J and then rows K to T. A shift resulted in one sheet of Plate 208 having row A without any overprint and row K with it double

provenance:
J.C. North, May 1956
V.H. Richardson, July 1960

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Sold for
£14,000