NIGER COAST 1894 ½d on 2½d blue variety, SG65b

NIGER COAST 1894 ½d on 2½d blue variety, SG65bNiger Coast 1894 (10 Aug) d on 2d blue, type 17 surcharge, Old Calabar provisional, showing variety 'OIE' for 'ONE', from position 8 of the row of 8, cancelled by large part 'OLD CALABAR RIVER' squared circle date stamp, dated 'NO 7 94', SG65b. A fine used example despite a few shortish perforations, which is often the case with these issues. Very scarce as less than 120 originally existed and fewer surviving examples today. The Stanley Gibbons

This stamp issue is infamous for its design

including 4c on $20 and 12c on $200 chocolate with values in normal Chinese currency

Watermark Maltese Cross

Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Moneyback Guarantee of Authenticity included

The sites of the executions and the prisoner's name

Superb Post Office fresh unmounted mint

and infamously for her seven marriages

In good condition

the finer of just two genuine unused examples of the error recorded in private hands

Provenance: Ex King Carol of Romania

491 of The Rhodesian Philatelist no

IMPERFORATE lower left corner block of 12 (6x2) with plate number '1' and printers