1897 Empress Dowager surch small figure 4c/4ca in vertical pair, with double surch variety (Chan 40f), setting.B with interpane margin at
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
