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Auction: 1026 - British Empire Stamps & Covers from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 283

India 1854 Issue Serrated or Pin Perforations 4a. blue and red, 5th. Printing, Head Die III, Frame Die II, with perforations all round, neatly cancelled "C/124" (Arcot); fine and exceptionally rare. Almost certainly the finest of the few recorded examples. B.P.A. Certificate (1993). S.G. 30, £13,000. Photo Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 literature: Illustrated on Plate 7 of "The Four Annas Lithographed Stamps of India", by Martin and Smythies, 1930 provenance: Christie´s Robson Lowe, March 1993

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