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Auction: 7033 - British Empire Stamps & Covers
Lot: 1595

x Orange Free State and Orange River Colony The 1900 "V.R.I." Overprints The First Postage Setting 1d. purple 2nd. Printing, upper right pane of sixty with margin at top, [12] showing damaged "V" and [57] showing no stop after "V", other minor varieties showing or absent on [8], [11], [27] and [52]; also a single showing spaced numeral. B.P.A. Certificate (1960) for the single. S.G. 102, 102b, 102l, £265+ Estimate £ 180-200 Note: This pane also shows one of the few plate defects in the original printing of the stamps, a crack in the first "a" of "Staat" on [25]. See Buckley and Marriott, Vol. III, pages 189-190

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