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Auction: 24034 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1237

Ceylon
Revenue
1938 100r. purple and blue perf. 14.15 line, vertical strip of three, fine used, each cancelled in manuscript with "2522", initials, and dated "3.5.43". A spectacular multiple of this mysterious and recently discovered perforation variety; which may come from six discarded sheets that survived the December 1940 bombing of De La Rue. Photo

provenance:
Spink, Revenue Stamps of the World, 24 October, 2017, Lot 403

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Estimate
£400 to £600