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Auction: CSS102 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 1
Lot: 6257

Hong Kong
1891 Jubilee
Second Printing: 2c. carmine in a block of twenty two from the foot of the right hand pane showing the plate number "2", with full original gum; vertical creasing at right and a thin in the lower margin (the remnant stuck further along the margin). An impressive block showing the introduction of short "U" [1]

provenance:
R.B. Yardley, January 1945

Sold for
HK$130,000

Starting price
HK$38000