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Auction: 22014 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 361

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. green and 5r. orange-brown both handstamped "specimen" Type T9 vertically reading up, traces of gum; the 5r. with a couple of faults on the lower portrait, otherwise sound. A rare pair and listed by Samuel as a "local" handstamp only known on these two values

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