1L Brown left marginal unmounted mint block of eight with bottom right stamp showing broken plate pos.44, very fresh and scarce (Image)

2L Grey-Bistre in an unmounted mint block of four with large margins, very fine and very rare (Image)

2L Grey-Bistre unmounted mint with large margins and a crack of a gum on top as often happens with this issue, rare (Image)

2L Grey-Bistre mint block of four, superb and rare (Image)

5L Sage-Green mint, very large margins all around, superb and rare (Image)

5L, the five distinctive shades in five superb used examples (Image)

5L Deep Yellow-Green in a beautiful used strip of three, with very large margins all around, superb (Image)

5L Greyish Green used strip of three showing plate flaw “broken circle at upper left” (pos.15), good to very large margins and very fine (Image)

5L Emerald right marginal example in a beautiful fresh colour, unused without gum, huge margins, showing control figure half printed, minimal paper thins in the upper margin, very fresh and rare (Image)

5L Deep Green used strip of three with large even margins, very fine (Image)

10L Orange showing control figure “0 inverted,” very large to huge margins, superb and scarce (Image)

10L Orange mint bottom sheet marginal, MISSING CONTROL FIGURES variety, a tiny paper airhole not detracting from this extremely rare showpiece with excellent colour and impression A very fine example of this variety which in unused condition is of the greatest rarity, cert. Tseriotis (Image)

10L, the four distinctive shades in superb used pairs with 40c and 40d showing plate flaw “open cross” in the right stamp (Image)

10L, the four distinctive shades in superb used examples (Image)

10L Red-Orange, two examples with double impression, one showing double print of the frame and the other showing a upper right double print with 0.5mm separation, very fine and scarce (Image)

10L Red-Orange, vertically BISECTED (defective at the bottom) used together with two 20L Deep Blue (same issue, faults), tied to cover from Levadia (11.1.1874) to Syros, with Athens and Syra bs. Although we believe that the cover is genuine, we can not explain this 45L franking. According to the contents, the cover included three letters of exchange, and thus would have been overweight An extremely rare postal history document and exhibition showpiece Provenance: Photiades, Maximus (Image)

10L Red-Orange mint showing INVERTED CONTROL FIGURES, very fine and an extremely rare unused variety, an important showpiece (Image)

10L Red-Orange with INVERTED CONTROL FIGURES mint, very fine and very rare (Coundouros 52.4 states that “it is very rare in mint condition…”) (Image)

10L Red-Orange mint, very good to enormous margins, showing INVERTED CONTROL FIGURES variety, small thins, very rare (Coundouros 52.4 states that “it is very rare in mint condition…”) (Image)

10L Red-Orange unused, barely clear to good margins, with INVERTED CONTROL FIGURES at the back, very fine and rare (Image)

10L Red-Orange used pair, bottom stamp without figures at back (top stamp with inverted figures as is always the case), top example just touched and with small tear, otherwise superb and of the greatest rarity in pair with normal (40Np,40Nm) Provenance: Maximus (1985; realised SFr. 6’325) (Image)

10L Red-Orange used, with good to very large margins, showing MISSING CONTROL FIGURES variety, plus additional horizontal line printed from the bottom of the printing plate, superb and very rare, the only one that we have ever seen, ex Tseriotis (Image)

10L Red-Orange used bottom marginal with control figures omitted, three good to large margins and one clear to small, rare (Image)

10L Red-Orange pair, good to large margins, showing MISSING CONTROL FIGURES at the back, tied on small cover from Piraeus (6.2.1874) to Gytheion. The stamps, which have been lifted for examination and replaced, are pos.141-142 and show tiny portion of the control cachet at the back, ex Binos, cert. Tseriotis A fine item of the greatest rarity, as this is the only known pair on cover (Image)

10L Orange-Vermilion on lavender in a very fresh colour, mint, three large margins and one clear to fine, showing variety “open cross on three crosses,” a very rare shade in mint condition (Image)