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Auction: 1026 - British Empire Stamps & Covers from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 272

India 1854 Issue Four Annas, Second Printing, Head Die II, Frame Die I Blue and red, variety head doubly printed, cut-to-shape with margins intact nearly all round, neatly cancelled with diamond of dots; small light mark below neck, otherwise a fine and attractive example of this rarity showing clear separation of the two printings. B.P.A. Certificate (1993). S.G. 19a. Photo Estimate £ 3,000-3,500 provenance: Sotheby´s, March 1984

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£23,000