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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 436

1919-21 Pictorial Issue
Issued Stamps
1/- Frame Inverted
A Magnificent Positional Multiple of this Famous and Important World-Renowned Rarity
1/- orange-yellow and red-orange upper left corner horizontal pair, variety frame inverted, fresh bright radiant colours, wonderfully centred and with full sheet margins illustrating the brilliant white paper that these stamps possess, nearly full original gum with just two very small hinge remainders which have been applied to re-inforce minor perforation separation between the two stamps at foot; tiny tear in the sheet margin above the right-hand stamp which in no way detracts from the overall superb appearance of this outstanding multiple

A hugely important and magnificent multiple of this great rarity. S.G. 85a, £80,000+. Photo

Note: In March 1922 a small block of stamps, reported as ten and described as with centre's inverted, was found at the Manchioneal Post Office, a small village on the north east coast of the island. The General Post Office at Kingston had confirmed that only half a sheet of thirty stamps would have been sent to the Manchioneal Post Office at any one time. The majority of these stamps would probably have been used on telegrams, as at that time of the year the village was an active centre for the purchase and shipping of bananas. Some were probably also used on Thrift Savings cards, a system similar to that operated by the Post Office Department in the U.K. Examples taken from telegraph forms could not be recognised as other than postally used, as the cancelling datestamp was the same for both services. The other half of the sheet has not been positively traced, though was most likely sold over the counter at the Kingston Post Office as examples with their cancellation exist. It is believed that between ten and twenty examples exist

provenance:
T. Charlton Henry, April 1961
Robert H. Cunliffe, June 2009

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Sold for
£55,000

Starting price
£45000