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Auction: 26023 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of British Empire Part XXVII
Lot: 1181

(x) Nauru
1916-23 Waterlow 10/- indigo-blue, block of four from the lower-left corner of the sheet, each showing variety overprint double, one albino; a very fresh and fine multiple of this exceedingly rare variety, only sixty of the Waterlow 10/- overprinted and one of only two blocks of four known, light 'bpma' handstamps on the reverse of each, unmounted mint. S.G. 18a, £52,000

provenance:
The British Postal Museum

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

Estimate
£15,000 to £20,000