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Auction: 22014 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 358

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
Telegraph Stamps
1869-78 "Double Head" Issue
1a., 2a., 4a, 8a., 1r. S.G. Type I, 2r.8a. Type I, 10r. Type I, 14r.4a., 25r. Type II, 28r.8a. and 50r. Type II, each handstamped "cancelled" Type 9 vertically, the 8a. and 2r.8a. to 50r. inverted, without gum; the 2r.8a. imperforate at base and the 10r. with some defects though a rare and important group

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