Auction #140 - Public Auction

106 var footnoted (106 var footnoted) (Gibbs 6a) 1914 3d on 30pf black and orange on buff Kaiser's Yacht overprinted "G.R.I.", type SG 13 ovpt, perf 14, VARIETY - 3d instead of 4d, there is a "space" for this rare stamp in the Stanley Gibbons Imperial Album, Scott notes "produced at a later time",, light "Apia" cds, ex-Marquis of Bute, cert notes this is the only recorded used example, a virtually impossible space to fill in an Imperial Album, and the only one we have ever been able to offer, XF, with Gibbs certificate