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Auction: 1026 - British Empire Stamps & Covers from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 281

India 1854 Issue Four Annas, Fifth Printing, Head Die III, Frame Die II, Wide Spacing Deep blue and red vertical pair with clear to large margins, each neatly cancelled "C/15" in bluish ink and tied on 1858 (7 Mar.) envelope from Mysore "via Marseilles" to London, showing crescent-framed "india paid" and London Paid c.d.s. (12.4), both in red on face, the reverse with despatch and Bombay Madras (10.3) c.d.s.; the pair creased between and with crease at lower left corner. Very rare. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 26. Photo Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 Note: From the family collection of the Rt. Hon. The Lord Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC. provenance: Sotheby´s, November 1985

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