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AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS

ovember was a busy month for the auction experts at Spink with a series of online auctions and sales conducted behind closed doors. The first part of the ‘Dubois’ Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps included an upper left corner horizontal pair of the 1919-21 pictorial issue 1/- orange-yellow and red-orange, with the frame inverted. Described as ‘a hugely important and magnificent multiple of this great rarity’ the rare error was discovered in March 1922 when a small block of stamps, reported

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