CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 1

Issued at Old Calabar 1893 (Dec): 'One / Shilling' in violet on Great Britain 2 d. grey-green & carmine, an unused horizontal pair with Gibbons Type 11 handstamped surcharge Type A, the first stamp with variety "Surcharge Diagonal Reading Up" and the right hand stamp with variety "Surcharge Vertical Reading Down", of fresh colour and very fine, superb large part og. Exceedingly rare multiple for the connoisseur. Cert. BPA (1956) Gi = £ 16'000+.rnProvenance: Collection E. Ashton-Kinder, RL, London, 15 Feb 1978, lot 155.