Lot 10209 – The Sacred Cows Specialised Balance Collection.An attractive,

The Sacred Cows Specialised Balance CollectionAn attractive, specialised collection of duplicates of all the Bundi issues, mostly the lower values, mounted and presented on approximately 106 pages. This collection represents a life-time of collecting and studying, and is ordered by Stanley Gibbons numbers and includes many of the 58 recorded settings on almost all values from ¼ anna to 5 rupee, showing various Official overprint types, with ovpt colours including the common black ovpt, the scarce red ovpt and the very rare green ovpt, plus a small selection of the Coat of Arms and Raja issues.

This offering comprises and amazing array of complete and reconstructed sheets with some tête-bêche panes, plus a fine range of shades and cancels on stamps and fragments, some revenue usages present also, paper variation with laid, thin, medium wove and thick wove. Official overprint, plus array of other minor varieties and additional specialties. Many scarcer items with some of the highlights being 10a chocolate, unused composite sheet from setting 13 BA/CD (SG £570), 12a sage-green, unused composite sheet from setting 13 BA/CD (SG £628), 5r scarlet & emerald unused (SG £500), 4a yellow-olive unused (SG 58, £1700).

A truly wonderful collection and a good basis for study and expansion (over 650 stamps including more than 60 complete sheets) (SG £16’200+).