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Auction: 21014 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 377

(x) Penang
1965 Orchids 5c. block of forty (10x4) with plate numbers and traffic lights, columns nine and ten with blue (background and inscription) omitted and column eight with it virtually omitted, twice folded vertically, fine unmounted mint. A rare and most spectacular error. S.G. 68d, £9000+

provenance:
Sir Gawaine Baillie, November 2006

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Sold for
£1,700

Starting price
£2000