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RECORDED New discovery: Bought in a collection in New Zealand Compared with the known genuine example in the Smithsonian Institution Confirmed as genuine (RPSL Cert. 223,979)
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STAMP THIS OF
POST EXAMPLES Since that date only a further four copies had been recorded until the discovery in August 2014 of the one shown here
(TBILISI) TOWN GENUINE It was rumoured in the 1880s that the Tiflis stamp existed, but no copy was seen until the example discovered by K.K. Schmidt
1857 TIFLIS SIX OF –TOTAL
October 2020 DISCOVERY NEW Owners of top row (left to right): Charles Stibbe Z. Mikulski H.C. Goss Z. Mikulski Sir John Wilson Z. Mikulski G.H. Kaestlin (Smithsonian) K.K. Schmidt (Berlin Postal Museum)
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