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Auction: 6031 - British Empire Stamps & Covers
Lot: 1454

Gibraltar 1987 (1 June) Guns, £5 complete sheet of fifty (5x10) showing error of vignette "12 pounder - 1758" (the vignette used for the 22p. value) for "24 pounder - 1799", fresh unmounted mint and accompanied by normal blocks of both 22p. and £5 values. An amazing new discovery accompanied by a letter from Crown Agents stating that the Gibraltar Post Office has "no issue whatever with the sales of stamps detailed on the letter of the 1st. June from Taylor Wessing", copies of which are included with the lot. S.G. 581var. Photo Estimate £ 20,000-25,000

Sold for
£20,000