Lot 38
Mafia Island, 1915, 6c on 1m carmine (SG M18), intense color and sharp violet surcharge, o.g., small crease and paper adherence at lower right corner. Otherwise Very Fine. An outstanding rarity, Illustrated in A. Beauchamp Vialou, "Tanganyika: 1914-1918 War Issues", The London Philatelist, Vol. LXI, No. 655 (June, 1947), Plate 3. Michel 18.
SG £9,000 ($11,480)
THREE EXAMPLES ARE RECORDED- TWO UNUSED AND ONE USED.
Expertization: Signed Hoffman-Giesecke.
Provenance: Colonel J.R. Danson
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