RHODESIA 1913-22 £1 black and deep purple, SG279

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RHODESIA 1913-22 £1 black and deep purple, SG279Rhodesia 1913 22 1 black and deep purple, head die III, toned paper, SG279. A fine mint example with large part original gum. There is some minor gum loss from hinge removal, but a really fine example with lovely fresh colour. A scarce stamp and rarely found so fine. One of the most attractive of this issue because of the very striking and effective colour combination. The Stanley Gibbons catalogue value is 600. The "Admiral" issues feature King

The printing ink reacted with a bleaching agent in the paper creating the rarest shade of the 2d Blue – “The 2d Violet Blue”

dated "18 AP 31"

One of only 7 possible

Engelbert Humperdinck

horizontal strip of 10

This marked the beginning of a new preference for pictorial stamps and the golden era of wonderful stamp designs

Tingle Creek

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French artist and leading painter in the development of Impressionism

many of which are in institutional collections

upper marginal horizontal pair with part centre guide

central lily cross

and the hands that sent them to their deaths