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Auction: 20012 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of Great Britain and British Empire - Part XII
Lot: 321

(x) Southern Rhodesia
1932 (1 May) Victoria Falls 3d. deep ultramarine vertical pair from the right of the sheet variety imperforate horizontally, with the unique Printer's Guide mark between the stamps (Rows 5 and 6); original lightly mounted gum, light horizontal gum crease between impressions. Fine and very rare with only twenty-two units existing in pairs, blocks of four and the block of six, this being unit 6 as identified in the Rhodesian Philatelist article (see footnote below). B.P.A. Certificate (2013). S.G. 30a

Note: See 'Southern Rhodesia- the 1932 3d. Large Falls Imperforate between varieties' in The Rhodesian Philatelist, no. 35, August 2014, pp. 623-29 which reconstructs and positions almost every known piece of S.G. 30a. (a photocopy of the article is offered with this lot)

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£6,500

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