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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 101

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

1r. slate, used with December 1895 datestamp, fine. Only five used examples recorded, one in the Royal Philatelic Collection. B.P.A. Certificate (2018). S.G. 17D/j, £6,000. Photo

provenance:
Terry Sturton, September 2004

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Estimate
£3,000 to £3,500