Lot 113

1897 Empress Dowager surch small figure 4c/4ca in vertical pair, with double surch variety (Chan 40f), setting.B with interpane margin at left and adjoining single. Unused with large part original gum. Of the one sheet of 40 stamps (double pane) produced with this error, the Agnew collection had a nearly complete pane of nineteen which has been split up, so that today only a block of four remains as the largest multiple (ex Beckeman, Lam Man Yin collections). Less than 35 examples of this variety have been recorded to date. Expertization: Signed Herbert Bloch, Lyons Livingston, Peter Holcombe. Provenance:John A Agnew This was originally a pane of nineteen (top left stamp missing).Lyons Livingston, H.R. Harmer (New York), (Dec)1973, lots141 and 142. “Renaissance”, Michael Rogers (Winter.Park), (Feb) 1999,lot 126 (for the pair).Reference Chen.Shih-Jen,.ed.,.Empress Dowager Jubilee and its Surcharge. 110 Anniversary of Empress Dowager Jubilee Issue (2004),.pp..296-300.

1897年慈壽加蓋小字4分蓋4分銀直雙連新，帶加蓋複蓋變異（陳目39d），B版式，帶左過橋邊紙，另附一枚鄰票。此複蓋票僅印製40枚，當中Agnew 收入了近乎完整的一盤格19枚，後來被拆開散逸，故四方連已是存世最大方連（見於貝克曼及林文琰集藏）。有記錄者不足35枚。帶Herbert Bloch、Lyons Livingston及Peter Holcombe簽署。參考﹕2019年1月斯賓克香港林文琰專場，第139頁。源流﹕John A Agnew舊藏（十九方連）。Lyons Livingsons（1973年12月紐約H R Harmer，拍品號141及142）。Renaissance集藏（1999年2月Micharl Rogers，拍品號126）。請參閱陳仕仁著作第296至300頁。