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Auction: CSS102 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 1
Lot: 6264

Hong Kong
1891 Jubilee
2c. carmine [2] variety wide surcharge double, from the lower row of the original block of eighteen with a central strike of (22 Jan.) c.d.s.; there appear to be a couple of trivial thins which seem to be a result of the watermark. R.P.S. Certificate (1949). S.G. 51e, £14,000

provenance:
H.P Manus, May 1933

Surgeon Capt. Bishop, 1936

Lt. Col. L.T. Rose-Hutchinson, November 1949

One block of twelve overprints was struck twice, the second impression covering three rows of the original sheet

Sold for
HK$85,000

Starting price
HK$45000