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Auction: 22016 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 101

(x) Northern Rhodesia
1938-52 Definitive Issue
Bi-Coloured Sample Stamps
½d. (2), 1d. (2), 1½d., 2d. (2), 3d. (2), 4d., 4½d., 6d. and 9d., each with medallion portrait of King George VI's head cut out and substituting one in another colour, all affixed on a piece on thin paper (175x208 mm.) watermarked "waterlow & sons limited". A most attractive group. Photo

Note: The lot is accompanied by a 1991 letter from Marcus Faux to Richard Lockyer explaining his theory regarding these interesting and unusual stamps and making the suggestion that they were sample stamps made at a time that the three main UK printers were looking at experiments to make their stamps more attractive

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Sold for
£6,500

Starting price
£1200