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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 477

xBritish Honduras 1865 no watermark, 1d. pale blue block of six (3x2) in marginal vertical interpanneau se-tenant block of twelve with 1/- green block of six (3x2), unused with large part original gum; fold through interpanneau margin, light crease through one row of 1d. and small thin in margin. The largest recorded multiple and a major philatelic rarity. Sc. 3a; S.G. 4b, £78,000 Estimate £ 40,000-50,000 Note: The sheet of this issue, from the first printing, were printed in an unusual format of four panes of sixty, the upper two being the 1d. value, the lower left the 1/- and the lower right the 6d. Subsequent orders for the 1d. were printed in sheets of 120. provenance: Tomasini Sir Henry Tucker Stanley Gibbons Auctions (New York), February 1981

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