Lot 70
New Britain, 1914, 5s on 5m carmine and black, variety no stop after "I" (SG 15b), and additionally no stop after "R", Setting II, position 4, bright colors, well centered, o.g. Extremely Fine. And very rare. Illustrated in Gibbs, page 71. Michel 15IF.
SG £9,500 ($12,110)
Expertization: Signed Bloch and 1970 R.P.S. certificate.
Provenance: Robert M. Gibbs
Gibbs records only five examples of the no stop after "I" variety- four unused and one used on piece. Of these, one is in the Royal collection, thereby making only four stamps available to private collectors. Of these four stamps remaining in private hands, two additionally are the no stop after both" R" and "I". This variety shows minute traces of the stop after "R", and the above example is one of these two properly certified examples.
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