Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

1914 (Sept 3): GRI 3 d. on 25 pf. black & red on yellow, the famous unused example, variety "Comma after "I" in G.R.I.", fresh and very fine, unused without gum. Believed to be the sole recorded example of this stamp. Signed Holcombe. Cert. Holcombe (1998) Michel 5PF1 = € 5'000 /Gibbs 5a / Gi = £ 5'000.
Note: This stamp lost its gum on the night of September 24, 1940, when the vault at Chancery Lane Safe Deposit, where the Marquess's valuable stamp collection was stored, was flooded during a German air raid.
Provenance: Collection Marquess of Bute, Robson Lowe, London, 29 April 1959, lot 329; Corinphila, sale 133, June 2002, lot 655.