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Auction: 7005 - Quintin Tan China Dowagers Collection
Lot: 121

1897 New Currency Surcharges Small Figures Surcharge on Dowager First Print 4ca. pale rose-pink variety surcharge double, right pane [7] showing the characteristic offset on reverse, large part original gum. A very good example of this error which exhibits very distinctive, 0.6mm displacement of the two surcharges. S.G. 40c; Chan 40f. Photo Estimate HK$ 80,000-100,000provenance: Sir Percival David, July 1970 Robson Lowe, Basel sale, March 1975 Only one sheet of forty was printed. The famous Agnew block of nineteen was split up in the 1970´s whilst eight examples from the lower three rows of the right pane were used

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HK$140,000