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Auction: 7028 - British Empire Stamps & Covers
Lot: 1314

Cape of Good Hope 1855-63 White Paper 1/- intermediate shade between yellow-green and deep green, the famous and unique block of twenty with large to very large margins and showing marginal lines watermark along one horizontal side, all clearly cancelled; a few defects and creasing in places though of sound appearance. A remarkable multiple and the largest recorded used block of this value. Photo Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance: Pavitt, 1955 D´Arcy Hall, 1964 Maria de la Queillerie, 1970

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