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Auction: 9016 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 118

Mauritius 1848-59 "post paid" Issue Latest Impressions 1d. orange-red on bluish paper, the unique unused block of six, [7-12], being the lower half of the sheet, fresh colour and remarkably with quite a large part of the original gum; faults in places, including creases and thins, though in a remarkable state of preservation for a multiple of this size and of little significance for a block of this stature. A highly important multiple of these classic stamps and the largest known unused block in the entire "Post Paid" issue. S.G. 23 Estimate £ 8,000-10,000 provenance: Dale Lichtenstein, 1969 H. Kanai, 1993 William H. Gross, 2008

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