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Auction: 8030 - Important Great Britain, British Empire & Foreign Stamps & Covers, including items from the Royal Philatelic Collection
Lot: 97

x Netherlands One of the Great Rarities of Classic Netherlands Philately 1852 5c. blue Plate III horizontal interpanneau pair, [5-26], good to large margins all round and cancelled with part Amsterdam datestamp, deep rich colour and crisp impression; very fine with no crease in the interpanneau margin between the impressions as with almost all other items of this nature. A very rare and important showpiece of classic Netherlands philately. Dr. Louis Certificate (2004). N.V.P.H. cat. €15,000. Photo Estimate £ 6,000-7,000 Note: Interpanneau pairs are the key rarities of the first issue of Netherlands with only a few examples of each value known. This is reflected in the fact that even the great collections formed by Ferrary, Caspary and Burrus did not contain a single interpanneau pair between them

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