Lot 305
Brunei, 1906, Labuan Issue overprinted, 1¢ black & purple, overprint error, overprinted in black instead of red, sheet margin single, used with 50¢ on 16¢ green & brown, both tied on local envelope by deep blue BRUNEI 14 JAN 19 cds, Very Fine, an extremely rare cover (S.G. catalog value is 30x used price), Brandon certificate (2011).
SG 11a, 21. (Scott 1a).
SG £75,000
Only one sheet of 100 of the error was printed and sent by mistake. There is only one other cover bearing the error, in the F.E. Ward collection (1965) and was sold in a Singapore auction for S$23,000 (approximately US$13,000). A rare and popular error and a great postal history gem of South East Asia .
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