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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 2122

Virgin Islands Later Issues 1922-28 Issue essay: 21/2d. composite essay with the main body of the design photographic in brown and with the value handpainted in Chinese white on a turquoise ground, inset on thick card (88x114mm.) dated "1st Febr. 21" with small puncture hole at lower left. Believed to be unique in private hands with the only other example in the Royal Philatelic Collection Estimate £ 2,500-3,000

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£2,200