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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 49

Overprint Settings and Printings
Overprint Setting 3
Printing 1, late June/early July 1896 - 6a. only
6a. pale brown block of sixteen (8x2), R.9.1/-10/8, being the bottom two rows of the pane with margins at left and at foot, varieties include broken "a" in R.9/8, broken capital "Z" in R.10/3, broken stem to "b" in R.10/4 and broken bulb to "b" in R.10/8, fresh with large part original gum, over half unmounted. Highly attractive and a key item in explaining the transition between the two settings. See plating chart in Figure 7. S.G. 13, £320+. Photo

Illustrated in "Zanzibar", EASC 2002, plate 4

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£600