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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 47

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
The following blocks also conform in all detail with Overprint Setting 2


1r. green and aniline carmine block of twelve (3x4), R.1/1-3/4, including Arabic "2" for "r" in R.1/3, broken capital "Z", no dot to "i" and no serif to "b" in R.2/1 and antique "r" in R.3/1, fresh with large part original gum, most remaining unmounted. A rare multiple. S.G. 18C/G/I, £294. Photo

provenance:
Richard Knight, March 2003

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Sold for
£520