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Auction: 25016 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 1159

(x) India
1854-55 Issue
One Anna
Die I, Stone B
A horizontal strip of four [61-64] with close to large margins, each stamp with clear touch-ups and retouches to the eye and chignon, cancelled by crisply struck "B/147" octagonal cancellations of Penang; tiny tone spot on right hand stamp, one or two bends mostly between impressions, otherwise very fine and a very rare multiple used in Penang. Photo.

Notes: Position 64 is described by Dawson as "The most interesting stamp in the sheet" of the 'B' stone and this is the only known multiple [64] cancelled in Penang.

provenance:
C.S. Taylor, May 1981
Spink Singapore, June 2000
V.T. Nathan, April 2009

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000

Starting price
£2000