Auction Series 257-264 in Zurich Day 4

Suez Canal Company 1868 (July): 5 c. green, a partial plating study with an unused irregular block of eighteeen, and an adjoining block of four, positions 37-42 / 49-54 / 63-66 / 75-78 / 87-88, a vertical pair (pos. 29 / 41) together with a single unused example from position 62; the large block of eighteen backed on to card paper (signed Calves) and in a pale shade, the block of four without gum (signed A. Diena), the vertical pair in a fresh shade with part og. (signed A. Diena) and the single unused. Imperfections but a remarkable group and a very rare large reconstructed multiple Gi = £ 2'125.
Catalogue 261: Stamp Issuing Steamship Companies