Lot 30024 – 1871, 100 mon blue, plate 2 , single with “Right dragon Arm Missing” variety

1871, 100 mon blue, plate 2, position 18 featuring the prominent “Right Dragon Arm Missing” variety, close but clear margins at left, good to large in other respects, unused without gum as issued. Cert. Florian Eichhorn BPP (2023). (JSCA 2v-2-18, ¥2,000,000). As a result of the detailed impression and rich shade, a very fine example of this very rare and desirable variety.Note: This striking omission in the dragon design was never retouched, as evidenced by the reappearance of this error in the 1 sen dragon plate 2. The high catalogue value of this error in the JSCA catalogue clearly reflects the rarity of this variety and the very low number issued of the 100 mon plate 2 in comparison with the 1872 1 sen blue with the same error, as the former is priced over eighteen times higher.