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Auction: 23016 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of Great Britain and British Empire- Part XVI
Lot: 1211

(x) Mauritius
1848-59 Post Paid Issue
Early Impression, 2d. blue on thin greyish white paper, an exceptional vertical pair [8-11], very neatly cancelled with two clear strikes of numeral '2' of Flacq, huge margins and slightly torn from the sheet well away from the design at upper right, tiny scissor cut between the two stamps in the margin at right and small repaired tear in the margin at left; an outstanding and rare multiple which has graced some of the finest mauritius collections. R.P.S. Certificate (1958). S.G. 8, £20,000

provenance:
Hind
Caspary
Amundsen
Kanai

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Sold for
£8,000