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Auction: 24032 - The 'Pegasus' Collection of Cameroons and Togo
Lot: 32

Togo
Setting 1. Lines 3mm. Apart
3pf. brown, a lower left corner example showing overprint double, one diagonal, unused without gum; a fraction soiled at top, mainly on reverse, and some perfs strengthened. A major rarity of Togo philately. Only one block of four and two singles have so far been traced. Holcombe Certificate (1989). Gibbs 1a; Unlisted in SG. Photo

Note: This stamp was from a complete sheet that was part of the great Bute collections which were housed in underground vaults in London during the war. These vaults were flooded by broken water mains and/or London firemen during the blitz of 24th and 25th September 1940.

provenance:
Marquess of Bute

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Estimate
£5,000 to £6,000

Starting price
£4000