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Auction: 26024 - The 'Mulberry' Collection of Great Britain King Edward VII Issues
Lot: 2271

Great Britain
King Edward VII
Officials
Inland Revenue
1902-04, on Stamps of 1902
5/- bright carmine with interpanneau margin at top, variety raised stop after 'R'", mounted in the margin at top only, leaving the stamp unmounted mint, initialled 'AD', discreet red handstamp and indistinct marginal annotation in pencil; two pin holes in the margin and folded along the upper perfs, very fine and a rare stamp. B.P.A. Certificate (1996). S.G. O25a, £42,000, Spec. MO6a, £50,000

Notes: The left-hand marginal example from the Silkin collection, and the 18 July 1990 Sotheby's auction is almost certainly from the same row and described as 'large part original gum', and the Chartwell example had a vertical crease, making this among the finer examples of this very rare stamp.

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Estimate
£8,000 to £10,000

Starting price
£6500