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Auction: 25015 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 3318

(x) Portuguese Colonies
Mozambique Company
1936 Waterlow & Sons hand-painted stamp sized essay of the accepted 1c. design depicting a giraffe, in dark green and violet with details picked out in Chinese white; sunk into embossed 'waterlow & sons/ limited/ specimen' card (85 x 90mm.), manuscript notation 'Frame Wrong' in partially erased pencil and 'Yellow-Green' below also in pencil. 'DC' initials in pencil at lower right; superb and rare

provenance:
John Sussex, November 1999

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£700 to £900