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IMPERFORATE BLOCK
Spink’s recent ‘Important Stamps and Covers of the World’ sale included a lower left corner block of four of the British Guiana 1934 4c. slate violet, with missing horizontal perforations. The lot was said to be ‘an extremely rare multiple of this variety and unique positional piece’ and the catalogue went on to explain the scarcity of the item: ‘From the original single sheet of sixty, yielding some thirty pairs of the variety, 26 or thirty were cut into singles and sold in the normal course of business, eight or twelve were purchased by a local clergymen who complained to the Post Office that he had to separate the
