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Auction: 21019 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1052

(x) South West Africa
The Issued Stamps

1927 (Aug.) "S.W.A." Overprints
Issued Stamps
£1 pale olive-green and red block of eighteen neatly cancelled with numerous "windhoek/counter" datestamps for 3 March 1928 datestamps, believed to have been used for a Karakul pelt parcel; some adherences and perfs. severed and strengthened in places though a most attractive and exceptionally rare. R.P.S. Certificate (1975). S.G. 57. Photo

provenance:
Manfred Eichele, "White Lady", Sotheby's Johannesburg, August 1985

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Sold for
£2,800

Starting price
£800