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Auction: 1016 - Important Stamps & Covers
Lot: 38

Great Britain King George V 1912-24 Issued Stamps 2 1/2d. milky blue, a bright shade in an unmounted mint vertical strip of five from the left of the sheet with complete "postage" (inverted, reading up) watermark on the stamps and with "postage" (reading down) in the margin, tiny wrinkles, otherwise fine and fresh. Believed to be a unique positional piece. Photocopy of R.P.S. Certificate (2009 ) for a control block of eighteen from which strip was taken. Specialised B21(6)b yb Estimate £ 2,000-2,400

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£1,700