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Auction: 21020 - Rhodesia 1910-13 Double Head Issue: The Cottonwood Collection Robert M Gibbs Trustee
Lot: 479

(x) Issued Stamps
Combined Perforations
One Penny Plate B
Carmine, Perf. 14x14x15x14
[82], very well-centred, cancelled with large part Bulawayo double-ring datestamp for 3 April 1912. An outstanding example of this exceptionally rare stamp of which only two examples are recorded. Photo

Note: In the April/June issue of "The Philatelic Journal" Bernard Livermore wrote that this stamp was found amongst a box of Rhodesian stamps sent to the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in c. 1963. The stamps were forwarded to Arnold Waterfall (Tibetan specialist) who examined them in detail finding ten perf. 13½ 1d. and the stamp offered above. The stamp was taken to Robson Lowe who confirmed that it was "quite genuine" and where it was subsequently bought by Livermore, with the other stamps, for £15 . This lot is accompanied by photocopies of the Livermore article and an Arnold Waterfall affidavit

provenance:
Bernard Livermore

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000

Starting price
£2000