7 Schilling orange in souvenir sheets of 5, fresh colours and large margins all round, partly with intermediate lines, each value neatly cancelled by line stamp (minimally blurred in some places). The upper right stamp very minimal corner crease, between the vertical pairs a vertical tear of approx. 12 mm length closed and an adjoining crease smoothed, on the lower right stamp a small part at bottom left supplemented, here the margin line repainted. This souvenir sheet is not only the largest multiples of the 1st issue used, but is also the only souvenir sheet of the 1st issue in private ownership, as the block of 4 9 Schillings has been in the Postal Museum in Berlin for decades. Signed Pfenninger, certificate Huylmans BPP (2021)Provenance: Robson Lowe auction (1972), 161st Edgar Mohrmann auction (1983)
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