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Sale 111    5–8 Apr 2016   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 2988    Session 11 (9.30am Thursday)    Stamps

Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $220

GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS, 1911 set 1/2d - 1/- overprints on Fiji, used; also Pandanus Pine set mint and used (illustrated) this postmarked for Butaritari Island, (SG 1-11); oddments mostly mint including 1935 Jubilee set, KGVI set 1/- to 5/- and £1 1948 wedding commem. Mint and used. (26)

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate was established in 1892 in the Central Pacific Ocean, named after the first two island groups that were declared part of the new territory. More islands were added later including Butaritari one of the group that made up sixteen islands in the Gilbert group.

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