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Auction: 14021 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1452

Rhodesia
1910-13 Double Head Issue
Perforated 14
½d. dull blue-green marginal block of four from the right of the sheet, variety imperforate, part original gum; the usual minor creases. A very rare and impressive multiple of this variety. RJL 5; S.G. 120a, £30,000. Photo

Note: One full sheet of one hundred was discovered at the Umtali Post Office. The sheet was extensively creased with most stamps affected to varying degrees. About forty of the most severely affected were cut into pairs and affixed to envelopes self-addressed to H. Benson of Durban

provenance:
"Apollonia", October 2007

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Sold for
£8,000