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Auction: 24024 - British Honduras - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 584

British Honduras
1865 (Dec.) No Watermark Issue
Issued Stamps
1/- green in an interpanneau se-tenant pair with 6d. rose, unused with large part original gum (a fraction toned), good colours, fine. A major philatelic rarity of which very few are recorded. S.G. 4a, £55,000. Photo

Note: The sheet of this issue, from the first printing, were printed in an unusual format of four panes of sixty, the upper two being the 1d. value, the lower left the 1/- and the lower right the 6d. Subsequent orders for the 1d. were printed in sheets of 120.

provenance:
Sir Henry Tucker
Harmers auction, May 1968

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Estimate
£20,000 to £25,000

Starting price
£16000