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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 96

Overprint Reference List
The Major Errors
"Zanzidar" errors
Inverted "p" for "d" with small second "z"
Hall varieties 5c (small second "z" up), 5d (level) and 5e (down). S.G. variety j. R.8/5 of Overprint Setting 1, Printing 4

"2½" Type 2 in red on 1½a. sepia horizontal pair, the right-hand stamp with error, the left-hand stamp with small second "z", fresh mint with the variety unmounted; minor gum bends. Rare. B.P.A. Certificate (2018). S.G. 22D/j, £1,600. Photo

provenance:
Spink, July 2001 and March 2003

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Sold for
£750