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Auction: 20011 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of Great Britain and British Empire - Part XI
Lot: 106

(x) Jamaica
1920 1/- orange-yellow and red-orange, frame inverted, a very fine mint example of this important and popular rarity, fresh colours and lightly mounted; fewer than twenty examples known to exist, striking and scarce. R.P.S. Certificate (1979), S.G. 85a, £40,000
The "Inverted Frame" was discovered by a local collector at the small post office in Manchioneal, a village on the coast of Jamaica in March 1922. It is believed that only one sheet of sixty has the error, with half of the sheet going to Manchioneal

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Sold for
£16,000

Starting price
£12000