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Auction: 25020 - The Tom Gosse Collection of the Japanese Occupation of South-East Asia
Lot: 403

(x) Malaya
Trengganu
Single Frame Handstamp
Handstamp in black
$50 green and yellow, Type F, unused with large part original gum, fine. The rarest of all Japanese Occupation of Malaya stamps. A similar example in the 2023 Tsuchiya auction realised £12,000 hammer. B.P.A. Certificate (2013). ISC J126, $60,000; S.G. J117, £20,000. Photo

provenance:
Milo Rowell, Spink Singapore, June 1998, Lot 759
Spink Singapore, September 2013, Lot 2420

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

Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£8000