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Auction: 24030 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 3803

(x) Labuan
1879 (May) 2c. blue-green horizontal pair, [2-3], neatly cancelled by two strikes of the circle of dots in red, some short perfs particularly top of [3] otherwise fine. The only recorded multiple of the 2c. in private hands. R.P.S. Certificate No. 18,449, not present. S.G. 1, £1,700+. Photo

provenance:
"Walter Bickly", Spink, July 2011

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Sold for
£1,000