Lot# 5452

The 2021 Winter Auction - Sale 337   20 – 22 December 2021

Lot# 5452
Starting Price: 80,000 HK$
Hammer Price: 84,000 HK$
1865 Hong Kong QV 2nd issue Wmk CC 96c Olive Bistre (Yang 18), mint hinged, regummed. With fault and small repair at upper left corner perforation. The Key item of Hong Kong philately. Small specialist cachet at corner of reverse. The is the No.30 stamp in the survey of mint Olive Bistre stamp by Mr. Ng Kwai Lung in the Hong Kong Philatelic Society's Journal (2009). Extremely rare. Provenance: John Bull Auction 2010 Nov, lot #2160.