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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 107

Overprint Reference List
The Major Errors
"Zanibar" error
Hall variety 7. S.G. variety k. R.7/2 of Overprint Setting 3, Printings 1 and 2
Often found in a pair with the adjoining stamp on the left, with small second "z" up on all genuine examples. The origin of the plating was a block of six 6a. in the Crawford collection with a marginal inscription on the left of which "le" in "whole" sits opposite Row 7 (Hall p. 17). Found in five low values and 6a.

½a. blue-green horizontal pair, the right-hand stamp with error, left-hand stamp with small second "z", large part original gum; perf. separation between at top. Rare. R.P.S. (2001) and B.P.A. (2018) Certificates. S.G. 3D/k, £1,300. Photo

provenance:
Richard Knight, March 2003

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