Bushire 1915 1ch deep blue and carmine ‘Coronation’, SG15 Saint Christopher stamps "And so We bid you

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Great Britain 1863 4d pale red Plate 4

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matching lower left corner blocks of 6 (2x3) with 'W35' control and '47

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Bushire 1915 1ch deep blue and carmine ‘Coronation’, SG15 Saint Christopher stamps "And so We bid youBushire 1915 (Sept) 1ch deep blue and carmine Coronation, SG15. A very fine used example tied to piece by crisp nearly complete BOUCHIR (DEPART)' circular date stamp, dated '11 1X 15. A rare stamp with only 186 originally issued and certainly the finest used example we have ever encountered. Bushire, a city on the southwestern coast of Iran on the Persian Gulf, has long been of interest to stamp collectors. During their 1915 occupation, the British