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

Issued at Old Calabar 1893 (Dec): 'HALF / PENNY' in vermilion on Great Britain 2½ d. purple on blue, an unused horizontal pair, first stamp with Gibbons Type 9 handstamped surcharge in vermilion and right hand stamp with Type 9 surcharge in green, slightest surface thin on right hand stamp, merest trace of age on superb large part og. Just 60 stamps issued with the vermilion surcharge. An attractive and very rare multiple. Cert. RPSL (1960), BPA (2023) Gi = £ 1'100++.
Provenance: Harmers, London, 28 Aug 1997, lot 1243.