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Auction: 1026 - British Empire Stamps & Covers from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 358

Newfoundland 1860 Issue on medium, hand-made paper 1/- orange-vermilion proof on vertically laid paper, good to large margins and part original gum, fresh colour; a couple of tiny surface marks and with suspicion of a thin, otherwise fine. One of the finest examples of this exceptionally rare stamp of which only six are believed to have been produced. Friedl (1976) and B.P.A (2007) Certificates. See footnote after S.G. 15, £18,000. Photo Estimate £ 8,000-10,000 Note: Robert H. Pratt acknowledges that the stamps on vertically laid paper might have been produced from a standard plate of twenty impressions, though he favoured the more plausible conclusion that a single block of six impressions was pulled by the printers. From personal observations by Pratt it seems that three of the recorded examples were joined at one time. See "The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866" by Robert H. Pratt, pages 103-105 provenance: King Carol of Rumania

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