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Auction: 24010 - The Perry Goldberg collection of First Issues of the World, including Outstanding Indian Feudatory States
Lot: 80

(x) France
1849-52 imperf 10c. yellowish bistre horizontal tête-bêche pair, [57-58], good to large margins, unused without gum, fine. Extremely rare. Behr, Brun and Goebel Certificates (2003).
Maury T1, €115,000. Photo

Note: There are only seven tête-bêche recorded in the yellowish bistre shade. The printer used two plates of 150 each, one plate having three tête-bêche cliches at positions 27, 58 and 145. A total of 17,059,500 stamps of this value were printed in all shades from both plates.

provenance:
M. Burrus, March 1967
La Fayette, November 2003

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

Sold for
£28,000