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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1573

(x) Southern Rhodesia
1964 (19 Feb.) 2/6d. ultramarine and vermilion, plate block of four from the lower right corner of the sheet, the left-hand vertical pair both variety vermilion omitted and vermilion plate number '1A' omitted in lower margin, unmounted mint; a striking positional exhibition piece, superb. Pierron RH204MCa; S.G. 102a, £20,000. Photo

Note: The missing vermilion affects the fish scales, eye, gill, fins and tail. The error occurred on two or three sheets. It’s known columns seven (from the left) and nine were affected, but not if the columns came from the same sheet or two different ones. Columns six and ten show partial omission of the colour, but column eight hasn’t been seen making it impossible to know with certainty if one or two sheets were affected. What is known with certainty is that one other sheet was affected completely on columns six and seven and partially on the columns either side


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

Sold for
£6,500

Starting price
£6500

Sale 24028 Notices
This lot is not subject to 5% tax on the hammer price.