well struck and nicely patinated
set of 24 to $20 blue and plum
India 1856-64 ½a pale blue
neatly tied to entire cover by a red Maltese Cross
using hand grenades made from Coke cans and Semtex "weaselled out of a guard who was no match for his Machiavellian Mars"
NAURU 1916-23 ½d yellow-green variety, SG1c Bermuda stamps well struck and nicely patinatedNauru 1916 23 d yellow green, type 1 overprint, TRIPLE OVERPRINT, TWO ALBINO, the variant from the 'I16' printing, with one albino impression just above the inked overprint, the other at the TOP of the stamp, and both easily detectable from the face, SG1c. A fine mint example with large part original gum. Faintly yellowish gum, still fine and very rare. Provenance: Ex Keith Buckingham (Grosvenor 28 2 2006, lot 815) and illustrated on p. 78 of his