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Auction: 20031 - The "Libra" Collection of the 1961 Decimal Surcharges of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 537

Bechuanaland
10c. on 1/- black and olive-green marginal strip of six from the foot of the sheet uniquely with imprint and plate numbers, the surcharge grossly misplaced resulting in the right-hand stamp without surcharge and "0c" of surcharge in left margin, the right strip of three with patch of slightly oily gum, otherwise fine and mounted in the selvedge. A rare and spectacular multiple. R.P.S. Certificate (1999). S.G. 163a, under-catalogued at £13,000. Photo

provenance:
The Ameer of Bahawalpur, December 1968 (from the block of eighteen)

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Estimate
£8,000 to £10,000

Starting price
£8000