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Auction: 26013 - The "Mulberry" Collection of British Empire and Commonwealth Stamps
Lot: 448

Togo
1914 (17 Sept.) Overprinted on German Colonial Issue, Lines 3mm. Apart
10pf. carmine from Setting 1A, a block of four showing variety overprint tête-bêche in vertical pairs lightly cancelled by Lome c.d.s., very fine. An extremely rare multiple and a wonderful exhibition item. Holcombe Certificate (1989). Gibbs 3b; S.G. H3b, £19,000. Photo

Note: The top half of one sheet, comprising one complete setting of fifty, was overprinted inverted in error. The middle rows 5 and 6 showed the overprint tête-bêche - ten vertical pairs only exist showing the tête-bêche overprint. Vertical pairs 1 and 2 as a block of four are included in the Royal Philatelic Collection. Positions 5 and 6, as a block of four, were in the Gibbs collection. The whereabouts of positions 9 and 10 are completely unknown. Positions 3 and 4, formerly in the White collection, originally comprised a block of four, but this was subsequently divided into two pairs, one of which was in the Bute and Gibbs collections. The block offered above, positions 7 and 8, comprise the only extant block of this major variety showing the two spacings of the "go" in "togo" se-tenant.

provenance:
Marquess of Bute, Robson Lowe, April 1959
"Pegasus", Spink, January 2025, Lot 39

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Estimate
£4,000 to £6,000

Starting price
£3200