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Auction: 3032 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 787

†1914 (Oct.) narrow setting, 3pf. brown fresh unmounted mint. A very fine example of this very rare stamp. Signed Brun, Calves and Holcombe. Holcombe and Roumet Certificates (1999). Sc. 48; S.G. H14, £4,500. Photo on front cover Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 Note: Holcombe states that only about 25 examples of this stamp were supposedly overprinted, of which ninteen are recorded, the great majority being cancelled-to-order. He only records five unused examples to date (1999)

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