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Auction: 21020 - Rhodesia 1910-13 Double Head Issue: The Cottonwood Collection Robert M Gibbs Trustee
Lot: 46

(x) Issued Stamps
Perforated 14
One Penny
The "Original" Flaw
Carmine-lake vertical strips of three, [14/24/34] and [77/87/97], [87] the "original" flaw, and a single [96] together with 1898-1908 Small Arms 5/- brown-orange and 10/- blue-green, all perfined "bsa/c", dated in manuscript and cancelled with "pass office/selukwe" oval datestamp on 1912 (30 Apr.) document, being a claim for "three head of cattle and five sheep". A unique document, being the only example of the "original flaw" known fiscally used and the only example which is part of a multiple. Remarkable. Photo

Note: In the document the claimant states "The year that the white man entered the country, Dept came to my Kraal & said if I gave him cattle he would give me a wife. I gave him three head of cattle & 5 sheep and he went with them & he never gave me the wife promised"

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Starting price
£650