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Auction: 23026 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1632

Tonga
1886-88 perf. 12 x 11½ 1d. carmine, complete sheet of one hundred and twenty with printer's target marks and guidelines in selvedge at foot and current number '97622' at lower right; almost full original gum. Very rare, the research published in The London Philatelist Vol. 79, No. 936 and Vol. 80 Nos. 937-8-9 was based upon this complete sheet. S.G. 1b, £1,440+

provenance:
Howard White, Stanley Gibbons


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Starting price
£220