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Auction: 26012 - The Dr. Erick Reeber Collection, FRPSL
Lot: 1406

(x) Niger Coast Protectorate
Oil Rivers Protectorate
1893 (Dec.) Old Calabar Provisionals
"half/penny" Type 10
in vermilion: On 2½d. purple on blue, fine unused with part/large part original gum, minor peripheral toning and traces of the usual red fibres adhering to the reverse, otherwise fine. Very rare, only 6 examples produced. On the reverse old Stanley Gibbons handstamp and signed C.J. Phillips. S.G. 36, £10,000. Photo

provenance:
Col. E.H.R. Green
"Isleham", Christie's Robson Lowe New York, March 1987, Lot 2250

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

Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£1400