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Auction: 21020 - Rhodesia 1910-13 Double Head Issue: The Cottonwood Collection Robert M Gibbs Trustee
Lot: 174

(x) Issued Stamps
Perforated 14
Ten Pence
The "Vermilion" Printings

RSC "F", Orange-vermilion and maroon, Thick Ear printing
[10] with flaws in left-hand value tablet and at upper corner on central column, exceptional colours and almost perfectly centred, large part original gum; light wrinkles. The finest of the three or four recorded mint examples of this incredibly rare printing. Photo

provenance:
William O'Connell, March 1986
Sir Gawaine Baillie, September 2006
Lord Vestey, March 2015

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Sold for
£2,900

Starting price
£3700