NAURU 1916-23 5d yellow-brown variety, SG9b var South West Africa stamps A most elusive very fine

A most elusive very fine and fresh colour mint example of the two penny blue with large part original gum

Rosenthal was his attorney and agent in Paris as well as a member of the French Bolshevik-Leninist movement

A fresh quality example with part original gum

the upper pair with additional inverted albino overprint on the gummed side

Very rare with only six examples ever produced

NAURU 1916-23 5d yellow-brown variety, SG9b var South West Africa stamps A most elusive very fineNauru 1916 23 5d yellow brown, type 1 overprint, DOUBLE OVERPRINT ONE ALBINO (with the albino impression mm to left and 1mm below the inked overprint) and exceptionally showing variety 'Short left stroke to N' (R1 8), from 'H16' printing, SG9b var. A fresh and fine mint example with large part original gum. Exceptionally rare as one of only two possible with this combination of varieties. Provenance: Ex Keith Buckingham (Grosvenor 28 2 2006, lot 827).