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Auction: 22014 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 343

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
Official Stamps
1883-99 "On H. M./S." Issue
2a. ultramarine upper right corner block of twenty (4x5) each handstamped "cancelled" Type 20 and endorsed in the right-hand margin "Stolen from Chyebassa", July 1892", fresh mint and nearly all unmounted. See also lot. Photo

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