{"id":4382,"date":"2011-11-07T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidfeldman.com\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2015-05-20T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:26:10","slug":"unique-non-variety-stamp-of-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfeldman.com\/it\/2011\/11\/unique-non-variety-stamp-of-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Non-Variety Stamp of Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfeldman.com\/2011\/11\/unique-non-variety-stamp-of-cyprus\/cyprus96617\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4383\" title=\"Cyprus96617\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidfeldman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cyprus96617.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>In 1921 through 1923, the current Cyprus definitives picturing King George V were issued on paper watermarked multiple crowns and script &#8220;CA.&#8221; De La Rue, the printers, had prepared for a Half Piastre value, but it was apparently not ordered, and perhaps only one sheet (of four panes, totalling 240 stamps), in<strong> black<\/strong>, was printed and perforated (the 1912-15 version was in Green and Carmine).<\/p>\n<p>Of that entire preliminary printing, only one example has survived, and shows the Samuels Type D16 &#8220;SPECIMEN&#8221; overprint, perhaps to keep it from being inadvertently issued. The stamp is affixed to a small piece of paper from the De La Rue Archives, and is UNIQUE per the current BPA Certificate, issued in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Not mentioned by Gibbons, or by the Robson Lowe Encyclopedia. In 1924, a Half Piastre value, in Brownish Black &amp; Black, but in the new &#8220;Shield&#8221; design, was issued.<\/p>\n<p>This rarity, a true &#8220;gem&#8221; of high-level exhibition calibre, ranks with the top rarities of the entire British Empire, and appears in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfeldman.com\/buying\/auctions\/upcoming-auctions\/autumn-sales-series-geneva-december-6-10-2011\/\">Geneva Autumn Auction series<\/a>, December 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfeldman.com\/buying\/auctions\/upcoming-auctions\/autumn-sales-series-geneva-december-6-10-2011\/browse-lots\/aucP\/autumn-2011-auctions-general\/search\/1\/all\/all\/all\/all\/all\/all\/all\/all\/all\/all\/\">View this lot N\u00b040157<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1921 through 1923, the current Cyprus definitives picturing King George V were issued on paper watermarked multiple crowns and script &#8220;CA.&#8221; De La Rue, the printers, had prepared for a Half Piastre value, but it was apparently not ordered, and perhaps only one sheet (of four panes, totalling 240 stamps), in black, was printed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-by-country","tag-cyprus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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