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Auction: 20031 - The "Libra" Collection of the 1961 Decimal Surcharges of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 534

Bechuanaland
2½c. on 2d. red-brown Type II, an upper right corner vertical strip of five with surcharge grossly misplaced, the top stamp without surcharge, the other stamps with surcharge at top, fresh unmounted mint; also an unmounted mint single with surcharge at top. Fine and the rarest of all the surcharge varieties. A superb premier piece of this rare error. S.G. 159b, £16,000+. Photo

provenance:
Sir John Inglefield-Watson, October 2007

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Sold for
£12,000

Starting price
£10000