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Auction: 25023 - Tibet - The 'Bramley' Collection Part I
Lot: 272

Tibet
Chinese Imperial Post
Issued Stamps
3p. on 1c. brownish orange variety surcharge inverted, sheet 1 left pane [3] with top margin, part original gum which is dried as usual, there is a vertical row of blind perfs. at left. A fine example of this popular error. Holcolme Certificate (1986) and with his signature and pencil notes on reverse. S.G. C1a, £3500. Photo

provenance:
Sir Percival David, December 1964



Two sheets of forty have been recorded, one complete sheet was in the David collection. It is interesting to note that Waterlow's overprinting of the 1912 postage due stamps was performed on sheet of eighty (four panes), however, the Tibet stamps were overprinted on double panes of 20

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Estimate
£1,200 to £1,500

Starting price
£850