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Auction: 26013 - The "Mulberry" Collection of British Empire and Commonwealth Stamps
Lot: 237

India
1882-90 2a. blue upper left corner block of twenty (4x5), each handstamped "specimen" Type 14, the margins annotated "Part of a Sht. of stamps stolen from S.S.Astraea in June 1891 but afterwards recovered. Ashton & others being prosecuted and convicted", two stamps with hinge remainders, the others unmounted mint, very fine. A superb and almost certainly unique multiple. S.G. 92. Photo

provenance:
Marcus Samuel, Spink, March 2022, Lot 309

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000

Starting price
£1000