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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 960

x Malaya and States Straits Settlements — $500 purple and orange with sheet margin at left, very well-centered superb vivid colours, unused with large part original gum. Without doubt, the finest of the few recorded mint examples. One of the great 20th Century rarities not only of the Straits Settlements, but also of the entire British Empire. B.P.A. Certificate (1992). Sc. 146; S.G. 169, £80,000 Estimate £ 60,000-80,000

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£80,000