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Auction: 25011 - The David Spivack Collection of Queen Victoria Overprinted for use in the Bechuanalands
Lot: 242

(x) Bechuanaland
1890 "Protectorate" Trial Overprints
15mm Overprint
½d. vermilion variety overprint inverted and "Portectorate" for "Protectorate, in a lower margin block of nine with normals, there is some dried gum towards the lower left. A stunning and highly desirable example of this great rarity. Ex Hyland. R.P.S. Certificate (1932). S.G. 54d, £20,000+. Photo

Only four examples of this error have been recorded, there is a used block of four in the Royal Collection and in a mint vertical strip of three in the Mosley collection in the British Library. A mint single is the only other example in private hands


provenance::
Spink auction, March 2002

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£12,000