By: Interasia Auctions Limited
lot # 19 - 1: China Large Dragons issued stamps
China, 1883-85 Large Dragon thick paper 3ca. brown-red, Setting XII, block of fifteen [9-15-13/14-17-6/10-25-24/20-11-3/23-4-8], superb colour, uneven impression particularly noticeable on [6], very fine and wonderfully fresh unused with much original gum, [23] has minor thinning in left margin. Chan 8.
Estimate 200,000 - 250,000
Provenance: Major James Starr, Sotheby's (London), 11.9.1991, lot 81.
THE SECOND LARGEST UNUSED MULTIPLE RECORDED FROM SETTING XII.
Estimate: HK$ 200,000 - 250,000
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