33rd International Auction

Ceylon / Sri Lanka - 1857/2011, VARIETIES/SPECIALITIES OF CEYLON/SRI LANKA, extraordinary TOP COLLECTION of more than 8.000 stamps from 1857 6 d. purple-brown on blued original Perkins Bacon proof on wove paper (SG No. 1), showing an almost incredible array of varieties and specialities like imperfs, proofs of many different occurrences, stage proofs, approval/presentation copies, specimen, paper folds, gutter pairs, flaws, shifted perforations, partly imperfs, double printing, weak resp. oversaturated printing, partial printing, varieties of overprint (double, inverted, shifted), normal/flourescent paper, complete sheets etc. Many of the items are extremely rare, for some of them only a couple of pieces are reported! PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF VARIETIES/SPECIALITIES EVER FORMED - AN UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY! (K2) Catalog Price 70000,00