Lot 90077 – 1872, 1 sen blue Government Printing, unused, plate 14

1872, 1 sen blue, Government printing, plate 14, position 26, e remarkable example with part original gum. The presentation has been improved by loosely hinging another stamp behind the original, in order to add missing perforations and a small part of the vertical outer frame line at right, otherwise fresh and unrepaired in the usual sense of the term.

One of the three rarest plates of this stamp in unused condition, with only four unused examples recorded of plate 14. (JSCA ¥1,600,000).

Provenance: Fukuhara Kazunobu (Grand Prix Philanippon 2001)