Lot 876
876
unused 4d. blue, horizontal pair [5-6], both stamps with "COMPANY" completely omitted, left stamp with minor tone spot at top and hinge remainder, right stamp with very light gum crease, both stamps with light tone spots on the reverse, otherwise fine mint. R.P.S. Certificate 76,907 not present. S.G.62a, £14,000. Photo in colour on back cover

Details
unused 4d. blue, horizontal pair [5-6], both stamps with "COMPANY" completely omitted, left stamp with minor tone spot at top and hinge remainder, right stamp with very light gum crease, both stamps with light tone spots on the reverse, otherwise fine mint. R.P.S. Certificate 76,907 not present. S.G.62a, £14,000. Photo in colour on back cover
Provenance
N. Calnan, 1964
H. Birkhead, 1986
Literature
Rhodesia - The Second Provisional Issue of 1896 by Colin Hoffman F.R.P.S.,L., published in The London Philatelist, 1986. Nos. 10 and 11 in his listing
Further details
This is the only recorded horizontal pair with both stamps showing "COMPANY" completely omitted

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