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Auction: 26020 - The Dr. Jon Higgins Collection of Labuan Queen's Heads and The Paul Barsdell Collection of Sarawak
Lot: 5

Labuan
1879 (May) Watermark CA over Crown, Sideways
Specimens
2c. blue-green, 6c. orange-brown, 12c. carmine and 16c. blue, each in a marginal vertical pair from either the left or right (2c. and 12c.) of a sheet, each handstamped "specimen" (Samuel Type D8), the 6c. and 16c. initialled and dated "24.12.78" in red ink in the selvedge at left, all with large part or full original gum. Wonderfully fresh and extremely rare, only one sheet overprinted. S.G. 1-4. Photo

provenance:

"Walter Bickly", Spink, July 2011, Lot 10

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Estimate
£4,000 to £5,000