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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 2107

Virgin Islands Later Issues 1888 4d. on 1/- black and rose-carmine on toned paper, a complete sheet of twenty (5x4) with [11] showing long-tailed "S", large part original gum; some strengthened perfs. and parts of the margin missing at right, otherwise fine and very rare believed to be one of only two known. S.G. 42. Photo Estimate £ 5,000-6,000provenance: Maurice Burrus, 1962 William Frazer, 2004

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