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Auction: 24034 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1300

(x) Malaya
Straits Settlements
1912-23 MCA $500 purple and orange-brown, a wonderfully fresh and well-centred example, post office fresh colours and with almost full original gum with the merest trace of a previous mount; surely one of the finest examples known of this very rare high value. Signed Giulio Bolaffi and with his Certificate (1964). S.G. 215, £100,000. Photo

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Estimate
£40,000 to £60,000