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Auction: 25020 - The Tom Gosse Collection of the Japanese Occupation of South-East Asia
Lot: 198

(x) Burma
Burmese Government
1943 Farmer Issue
Perforated
30c. indigo error of colour, a horizontal pair, unused, fine. With normal pair for comparison. Extremely rare. Photo

Note: A copy of an unpublished note by U Aung Myint (Lim Ping Hong) is among the Gerald Davis papers. It appears to have been written in the early 1980s.

"The 30c. original printing is in deep blue-green on thick white wove paper, the figure and "c" are uniform, with clean cut perforations. The reprint stamp is in yellow-green and the figure and "c" are different, with the paper slightly thin.

The error of colour is in indigo. It was discovered by U Tun Tin while he was in charge of the stamp printing. He noticed that about one hundred sheets of the 30c. were printed in indigo instead of blue-green. He took a few sheets for a record and ordered the remaining stamps destroyed. It occurred that the printer forgot to mix the yellow ink with indigo. In early 1945 U Tun Tin gave me a dozen of these stamps of error colour in exchange with my peacock stamps. For nearly forty years I have never seen this error of colour variety listed in any catalogue".

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

Estimate
£500 to £600

Starting price
£400