Auction: 1026 - British Empire Stamps & Covers from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 72
British Solomon Islands 1907 Large Canoe Issue 2 1/2d. orange yellow Type 3 vertical marginal pair from the right of the sheet, variety imperforate between, unused with large part original gum; shallow thin at top adjacent to hinge remainder and with a few foxed perfs. between pair and margin, otherwise sound. Very rare. R.P.S. Certificate (1959). S.G. 4a, £7,000. Photo Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 provenance: S.D. Cramer
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