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Auction: 24032 - The 'Pegasus' Collection of Cameroons and Togo
Lot: 51

Togo
Setting 1. Lines 3mm. Apart
2m. blue, [1] showing variety 1¼mm. spacing between "Anglo" and "French", unused without gum, centred to right, fine. Very rare, only two sheets (40 stamps) of this denomination were printed with only four examples of this variety possible (it also occurred on position 2). Of these, two are unused and two used. Holcombe Certificate (1991). Gibbs 11; S.G. H11, £12,000+. Photo

literature:
In "G.R.I." by Robert Gibbs this variety is described on pages 169-170

provenance
Marquess of Bute, April 1959

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Estimate
£4,000 to £5,000

Starting price
£3200