Auction 321 - 332 Australian States & Commonwealth of Australia, New South Wales, St. Helena, Basutoland The ‘BESANÇON’ Collection - Day 2

Army Official 1908/11: Army Service 5 pi. brown & green and 10 pi. black & mauve, wmk. Star & Crescent, overprint Type B, each in a complete sheet of 60 subjects with margins all round and serial numbers "2" in lower margins on the 5 pi. and in upper margins on the 10 pi., some typical creasing and noted small varieties incl. "Missing "r" in Army" on position 6 of the 5 pi.; "Missing top to "m" in Army" on position 25 of the 10 pi. sheet etc. Large part og. or unmounted og. Fragile sheets but of great rarity - the sole examples known Gi = £ 54'000.rnrnProvenance: Collections of King Farouk and King Fuad of Egypt.