By: Interasia Auctions Limited
lot # 560 - 2: China 1932-1948 Issues
China, 1941 Dr. Sun Yat-sen American Bank Note Co. printing $2 black and blue, variety centre inverted, a resplendent example with sheet margin, position 6, with manuscript number in lower right corner of the sheet margin, characteristic centring frame to foot, deep rich colours as when issued, very fine unmounted mint, the gum is pristine on the stamp, the sheet margin only has slight ageing. A fantastic example of this twentieth century rarity. Chan 508a.
Estimate HK$ 800,000 - 1,000,000
Provenance: A.L. Powell, H.R. Harmer (London), 1.5.1967, lot 152.
References: Huang Kuang-Sheng, The Journal of the Philatelist's Club of the Philippines, No. 39 (1991), pp. 21-44.
Zhao Ren Long, "The Appearance of a Phenomenal Block of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Inverted Center", Stamps World (Hong Kong), No. 118 (12.9.1992), pp. 4-6.
Only one sheet of fifty is believed to have been printed with this error.
This is example A-22 in Huang Kuang-Sheng's listing. Illustrated in The Chinese Philatelist, No. 39 (1991), pp. 26 and 30.
This stamp originally adjoined the sheet margin example from position 7, which also had a manuscript "10" written in the lower left corner of the sheet margin.
Estimate: HK$ 800,000 - 1,000,000
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