Lot 39
Mafia Island, 1915, 6c on 3r blue-black and red (SG M19), vibrant color and excellent centering, fresh, o.g., negligible trace of vertical gum crease and tiny corner crease totally irrelevant for a unique stamp of this magnitude. Very Fine and a resplendent example of this stupendous rarity. Illustrated in A. Beauchamp Vialou, "Tanganyika: 1914-1918 War Issues", The London Philatelist, Vol. LXI, No. 655 (June, 1947), Plate 3. Michel 19.
SG £11,000 ($14,020)
ONLY ONE UNUSED AND ONE USED EXAMPLE ARE RECORDED.
Expertization: Signed Hoffman-Giesecke.
Provenance: Colonel J.R. Danson
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