Lot 4163 Cape of Good Hope

1861 (March 7): 1 d. carmine on laid paper, the famous block of four, very fine used on piece (Row 2, Stamps 13-14-15-16) with margins nearly all round: one stamp just touched at corner, large to enormous margins on three sides, slight ironed crease on the left hand pair and in the margin between the pairs, neither affecting the appearance, cancelled by light strikes of the CGH obliterator in black. Illustrated in "The Triangular Stamps of the Cape of Good Hope" by D. Alan Stevenson on plate 16 and in the London 1970 'Philympia' Exhibition catalogue. A rare and extraordinary multiple, just two blocks are recorded, these being largest recorded multiples Gi = £ 16'000++. Note: Certified as genuine by RPSL in 1948 # 32,217, the certificate is not present with the lot. Provenance: Collection D. Alan Stevenson, Harmers, London, 6-7 Nov 1950, lot 188; collection Col. W. D'Arcy Hall, Harmers, London, 5 Nov 1962, lot 133; collection H.E. Levitt, collection Sir Maxwell Joseph, Sotheby's, London, 28-29 Oct 1982, lot 715; collection "Maximus", Sotheby's, London, 7 Sept 1989, lot 369; collection "Bonaventure", Christie's, London, 9 Sept 1993, lot 265; collection Mrs. Ad Indhusophon, Spink, London, 26 May 1999, lot 150.