Sudan 1902 1m brown and pink Official, Type O1 'O.S.G.S.' overprint, vertical pair, 'ERROR OVERPRINT INVERTED', from position 19/13 of the setting, position 19 additionally with printing variety ‘Oval O’, SGO3c/d.
A brilliant quality mint vertical pair with original gum.
A great rarity of the British Commonwealth, with only six examples possible of the oval 'O', of which one is in the Royal Philatelic Collection and another was used.
The “Camel Postman” stamps of Sudan are considered by the famous printers De La Rue as the “most satisfactory” in their long history of stamp production and effectively became the country’s symbolic emblem.
Provenance: Ex Colonel J.R. Danson Collection (Robson Lowe Geneva 28/4/77, lot 860).
Signed Bloch (Peter Bloch) and with a British Philatelic Association (BPA) certificate of authenticity (2007).
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