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Auction: 24032 - The 'Pegasus' Collection of Cameroons and Togo
Lot: 38

Togo
Setting 1. Lines 3mm. Apart
10pf. carmine from Setting 1A, a block of four with margin at left, [19-20/29-30], showing variety overprint inverted, lightly cancelled by Lome c.d.s. (4.10.14), affixed to small piece, fine. Very rare, about twenty-four used examples known with this being the largest multiple recorded. A great exhibition item. R.P.S. (1969) and Holcombe (1989) Certificates. Gibbs 3a; S.G. H3a, £14,000. Photo


Note: The top half of one sheet, comprising one complete setting of fifty, was inadvertently overprinted upside down.

provenance:
The Ameer of Bahawalpur, December 1968
Robert Gibbs, September 1988
Christie's Robson Lowe sale, September 1994

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Estimate
£5,000 to £6,000

Starting price
£4000