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Auction: 22011 - The Michael Nathan Collection of New Guinea & Papua
Lot: 156

Papua
1929-30 Airmail Stamps
Cooke Printing
3d. black and bright blue-green, a top left corner vertical strip of five, the bottom stamp with overprint omitted, mounted in the selvedge only, fine mint. One of the great rarities of Papuan and aerophilately. B.P.A. (1961) and Ceremuga (2008) Certificates. S.G. 112a, £8,500. Photo

Note: This is from the complete sheet discovered by Richard Roberts, a stamp dealer from London, which was among his new issue stock purchased from the Post Office, Port Moresby.

The sheet had the overprint omitted from the fifth and sixth rows, which was broken up into five strips of five with lower overprint omitted, and five strips of three with upper overprint omitted.

provenance:
Tim Rybak, April 2008

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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£1800