The Mahendra Sagar Collection of Inverted Centers
October 5-6, 2011
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #202 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH KENYA, UGANDA & TANGANYIKA 1954 30c Owen Falls Dam, vignette (dam) inverted, watermark inverted as well, an exceptionally attractive used example of this spectacular error showing the dam and inscription inverted but properly placed in the design, light cancellation which does not obscure the error, well centered, strong colors, trivial marginal creases of no importance (as found on all existing examples), still v.f. Only three examples are recorded of this famous rarity. This error was first discovered in 1983 (nearly thirty years after its issuance) by a collector in the United States who found it in a stock book among his duplicates. A second example was found in 1992 in a glassine containing common stamps and was auctioned in 1993 by Christies (described also as slight creasing). The third example, which is offered here was last seen in the Peter Balner Collection of Inverted Centers of the World (also discovered in a mixture of common stamps in 1996). It is now thought that only one position in the sheet of 100 contained the inve O Catalog #108b Catalog Value £ 25,000 | Unsold |
