Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 15022 - Northern Rhodesia, The Award-Winning Collection formed by Neville Polakow, FRPSL, RDPSA
Lot: 42

(x) Northern Rhodesia
1938-52 Definitive Issue
Issued Stamps
1½d. carmine-red lower left corner block of twelve (3x4), columns two and three comprising four pairs with variety imperforate between, unmounted mint; gum a little yellow in places due, no doubt, to the way in which it was stored in it's earlier life, however not detracting from the superb appearance of this exceptional and unique multiple.

The gem of the collection and unquestionably the most important item of Northern Rhodesia philately.

S.G. 29a, £108,000+++. Photo

Note: When the original owner of this block passed away in Jamestown, South Africa in 1959, his daughter took his possessions, stored in an old tin trunk, with her to East London. In 1994 her son was perusing the contents of this tin trunk when he found an old red shoe box containing envelopes of stamps. In one transparent envelope he discovered, folded in half, this block of twelve stamps which subsequently came in to the collection offered here

A photograph found in the Sam Kelly collection shows a block of four with the variety and this was issued with a 1987 B.P.A. Certificate. The whereabouts of this block is unknown though this and the block of twelve offered above are believed to be the only examples of this remarkable variety known. See "The Rhodesian Philatelist", No 10, page 147

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Sold for
£95,000