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Auction: 22019 - The 'M' Collection of India and Indian Feudatory States
Lot: 1030

(x) India
1854 Issue Essays, Proofs and Reprints
Half Anna
Design First Adopted for the Stamp
1854 (Apr.) "9½ arches" essay, vermilion lower left corner block of ten (5x2), [101-115], with full sheet margin at foot and largely so at left; vertical crease at left which has split the paper in places. A fine and very rare positional multiple of this popular stamp and believed to be the largest remaining block in this shade. Spence 76. S.G. 1, £35,000. Photo

provenance:
"Koh-i-Nor", February 1986
"Medina" Part III, October 2013

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£32,000

Starting price
£16000