NAURU 1916-23 ½d yellow-green variety, SG1c Bermuda stamps using hand grenades made from

using hand grenades made from Coke cans and Semtex "weaselled out of a guard who was no match for his Machiavellian Mars"

Superb unmounted mint with full original gum left hand corner marginal cylinder block of 9 with black (Goalkeepers Jersey and '1E' cylinder) omitted from the first column and partially omitted on the second

India 1856-64 ½a pale blue

neatly tied to entire cover by a red Maltese Cross

Only 660 possible

NAURU 1916-23 ½d yellow-green variety, SG1c Bermuda stamps using hand grenades made fromNauru 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