Auction 333-341 Australian States & Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand – The ‚KOOYONG‘ Collection - Day 2

Niger Coast Protectorate, Issued at Old Calabar 1893 (Dec): 'Half / Penny' in violet (Type 7) on Great Britain 2½ d. purple on blue, an unused example, of good colour, centred slightly high left, large part og. lightly mounted, a fine example of this great rarity; one of nine printed. Cert. RPSL (1938) Gi 24 = £ 13'000.
Provenance: Ex Colonel Green Collection; ex Lousie Boyd Dale / Alfred F. Lichtenstein Collection, Harmers, 14 March 1991, lot 167.