Sale 71 Asian Stamps & Postal History

China, Proofs : 1878 Large Dragon 3ca. vermilion-red imperforate on vertically laid paper, unknown Setting [15], bright fresh colour, good to large margins, extremely fine and rare.
Estimate 40,000 - 50,000

Expertisation: Signed Peter Holcombe.

Provenance: Laurie Franks, Robson Lowe (Zurich), 20.10.1983, lot 855
"Ming", Corinphila (Zurich), 25.3.1987, lot 4720
Jane and Dan Sten Olsson, Interasia (Hong Kong), 1.4.2017, lot 7.

For the collector seeking one of the few perfect sets of these rare laid paper proofs which exist, the above represents an ideal replacement for the repaired 3ca. in the previous set (lot 52).