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Auction: 5026 - The Edward Gilbert Collection of Important British Empire
Lot: 1297

xTogo Anglo-French Occupation Issues 1914 (17 Sept.) Overprinted "TOGO/Anglo-French/Occupation" at the Catholic Mission, Lomé Wide Setting with lines of overprint 3mm. apart 2m. blue lower left corner example, variety overprint inverted, unmounted mint; the gum with some tropicalisation which is normal for this variety; vertical crease in left margin, otherwise of very fine appearance. A great rarity. Holcombe Certificate (1992). Sc. 45a; S.G. H11b, £10,000. Photo Estimate £ 3,500-4,000 Note: Only on sheet of twenty was printed with the overprint inverted. Bob Gibbs has recorded nineteen of the twenty positions, of which all are unused

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