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lot # 21100 - Great Britain - KGV 1915

Tuesday Jul 09, 2019 17:00 Europe/London

10/- De La Rue, the rare Bright 'Cambridge' Blue seahorse shade, an exceptionally fine mint full original gum exceedingly light hinge example which appears almost unmounted mint, superb in colour, well centred with just a hint of a few irregular perfs so typical of this scarce printing. Comparable examples researched on-line yield an unmounted mint example offered for £10,000, another example offered for circa £7,000 which had irregular perfs and was not as fresh, this example being exceptionally fresh and of superb colour accompanied by clear 1977 RPS photo-certificate of authenticity 'within the shade band' stating Bright Cambridge Blue N70(5) - now N70(3). SG catalogue £9,500 as hinged, retails in the region of £7,000 if you can find one so fine, BUT the one key difference is that this example appears to be the best centred we have seen, in our research we've not seen better. We've only handled one or two examples of this key rare shade within the past twenty years (RPSL Certificate) Cat £9500 (image available) (Start Price = £4,800.00)


SG 411/3N70(3)

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