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Auction: 18009 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series
Lot: 1772

(x) Southern Rhodesia
Booklets
1933 (3 Mar.) 3/- black on red, incomplete and containing 1½d. chocolate perf. 12 pane of six and a strip of three; tear at top of face panel though a very rare booklet in any form. Also 1938-45 2/6d. with inside front cover blank, exploded and incomplete with ½d. (3) and 1d. (2) and with a hinge remainder on all panes and covers. S.G. SB3, £4,500 complete, SB4a, £350 complete. Photo

Note: The 1½d. postage rate was reduced to 1d. eight weeks after this booklet was issued. Postal officials were instructed to detach the 1½d. panes and use them for other purposes. The remaining stock of the booklets were then sold at 1/6d.

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Sold for
£680