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Auction: 24032 - The 'Pegasus' Collection of Cameroons and Togo
Lot: 56

Togo
Setting 1. Lines 3mm. Apart
Covers
1914 (23 Dec.) envelope registered to "The Revd Father A. Riber, Catholic Mission, Danoe, Gold Coast", bearing 50pf. black and purple on buff clearly tied by "lome/togo" with another superb strike alongside and showing Germany registration label; envelope with flap missing. The only known example of this denomination on cover. A major rarity and exhibition item of Togo philately. Holcombe Certificate (1989). Gibbs 8; S.G. H8, £7,500 off cover. Photo

Note: Only seventeen unused examples are known, including a block of four in the Royal Philatelic Collection, and thirteen used including this cover.

provenance:
Marquess of Bute, April 1959

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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£8000