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Auction: 24030 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 3800

Jamaica
1919-21 MCA 1/- orange-yellow and red-orange, variety frame inverted, large part original gum, fresh colours and good perforations. One of the finest known examples of this rare and popular variety. B.P.A. Certificate (2010). S.G. 85a, £40,000. Photo

Note: According to most accounts, this frame inverted variety was discovered by a local collector at the small Post Office in Manchioneal (a village on the coast) in March 1922. It is presumed that only one sheet of sixty must have been printed, with half the sheet going to Manchioneal and some being fiscally used, while, more than likely, the other half sheet went to Kingston, as a used example of the error exists with a Kingston cancellation. Estimates vary among specialists as to the exact numbers of these errors that still exist, but the number is believed to be between 10 and 20 only

provenance:
Vestey, September 2015

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Sold for
£12,000

Starting price
£16000