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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 44

Overprint Settings and Printings
Overprint Setting 2
Printing 2, June 1896 - ½a., 1a., 1½a., 2a. blue, 2½a., 3a., 4a. slate-green, 8a. magenta and 1r. green and aniline carmine
½a. blue-green block of fifteen (5x3), R.6/2-9/4, including Gothic second "z" and inverted "q" for "b" in R.7/3, mark in bowl of "b" in R.8/4 and tall second "z" in R./7/4, 8/2, 9/2 and 9/3, large part original gum, with nearly all unmounted. S.G. 3C/F, £90+. Also 1a. plum and 2½a. yellow-green, both with Gothic second "z" and inverted "q" for "b", the 1a. with " 2 jl 96" registration datestamp and the 2½a. with "21 ju 96" hatched-circle datestamp, fine. S.G. 4F, 8F

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