Lot 10208 – The Sacred Cows Specialized Collection An outstanding,

The Sacred Cows Specialized Collection

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An outstanding, extensive, valuable and specialized collection of these popular issues, mounted and presented on approximately 131 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, plus a few of the rarer seen composite settings.



This offering comprises and amazing array of complete and reconstructed sheets with some tete-beche 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, minor varieties and additional specialties include pre printing paper folds, embossed elephant controls, also some unusual plate varieties such as the “One” of “One anna” raised, last letter in bottom tablet inverted, misplaced value tablet. Many scarcer items with some of the highlights being 4a yellow-olive, two unused single (SG 58, £3400), 4a bright apple-green, unused single (SG 58a, £1700), 12a sage-green composite setting 13 unused sheet of four BA/DC (SG36(1) & SG44(3), £628), 4r emerald and scarlet setting 12 unused reconstructed sheet with margins (SG 48, £2000), 5r scarlet and emerald setting 12 unused reconstructed sheet with margins (SG 49, £2000), 4r yellow green and vermilion setting 57 unused sheet of four BA/DC (SG71, £760), 5r yellow green and vermilion setting 57 unused sheet of four BA/DC (SG72, £1000), plus a small selection of the Coat of Arms and Raja issues.

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A truly magnificent collection and a superb basis for study and expansion which would result in an important exhibition collection (over 1000 stamps including more than 100 complete sheets) (SG £35’900+).