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Auction: 25029 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 2621

Great Britain
Officials
Office of Works
1896-1902
5d. dull purple and blue in pale shades, a marginal block of four [R9/11-R10/12], only the upper left stamp mounted and one or two bends in the margins only leaving the remaining stamps superb unmounted mint; a beautiful and very significant multiple of this rare stamp - at the time of issuing the R.P.S. had only certified one other block of four. R.P.S. Certificates (2013, 1945 - submitted by R. C. Alcock). S.G. O34, Spec. L34, £20,000 as a block of four

provenance:
Alcock

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Estimate
£6,000 to £8,000

Starting price
£4200