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Auction: 1026 - British Empire Stamps & Covers from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 378

Newfoundland Later Issues 1933 (9 Feb.) "L. & S. Post." 15c. chocolate vertical strip of three, the top stamp with variety overprint omitted, unused with large part original gum; traces of gum creasing, otherwise fine. Very rare. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 229c, £6,000+. Photo Estimate £ 3,000-3,500 Note: Apart from the unique pane of twenty five in the Sir Gawaine Baillie collection, which showed the top two rows of the pane without overprint and the remaining rows with overprint grossly misplaced, only a total of ten strips, as offered above, exist

Sold for
£3,500