Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 22016 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 34A

British Guiana
1934 4c. slate-violet lower left corner block of four, variety imperforate horizontally, fresh with large part original gum. An extremely rare multiple of this variety and unique positional piece. B.P.A. Certificate (1988). S.G. 291b, £44,000+. Photo



Note: From the original single sheet of sixty, yielding some thirty pairs of the variety, twenty-six or thirty were cut into singles and sold in the normal course of business, eight or twelve were purchased by a local clergymen who complained to the Post Office that he had to separate the stamps with scissors. The remaining quantity were bought over the counter at the Post Office. No example of this variety is present in The Royal Philatelic Collection.

provenance:
Sir Gawaine Baillie, February 2005
Lord Steinberg, September 2011
Vestey, September 2015


Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Sold for
£38,000

Starting price
£35000