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Auction: 22014 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 309

India
The remarkable collection formed by Marcus Samuel, FRPSL. Type numbers quoted are taken from "Specimen Stamps of British India"
by Marcus Samuel, published by the India Study Circle in 1978
1882-90 Empire Issue
Issued Stamps
2a. blue upper left corner block of twenty (4x5), each handstamped "specimen" Type 14, the margins annotated "Part of a Sht. of stamps stolen from S.S.Astraea in June 1891 but afterwards recovered. Ashton & others being prosecuted and convicted", two stamps with hinge remainders, the others unmounted mint, very fine. A superb and almost certainly unique multiple. Photo

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