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Auction: 26012 - The Dr. Erick Reeber Collection, FRPSL
Lot: 1547

(x) Uganda
1895 (May) Wide Stamps with Pen-written Surcharges
About a dozen examples of the first issue are known bearing a manuscript alteration to the value, accompanied by the initials “G.R.B.” The Rev. George Robert Blackledge was stationed at Ngogwe, some 25 miles east of Mengo. When writing dates, he always wrote the month first.
This remarkable section includes five examples of these remarkably rare manuscript surcharges. The David Sey collection had six, Ferrary and Hind had three each, “Isleham” and Griffith-Jones two each, and Dunstan and Reynard one each.
50 on 60(c.) initialled “GRB” and affixed to piece, borders or parts thereof on all sides, fine. Extremely rare. Signed P.L. Pemberton. B.P.A. Certificate (1972). S.G. 16, £75,000. Photo

provenance:
David Seys, Stanley Gibbons, November 1971, Lot 117

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

Estimate
£20,000 to £25,000

Starting price
£14000