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Auction: 11027 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps & Covers Part 1
Lot: 1062

1840 One Penny Black Plate Ia Covers 1840 (8 May) cover front to Sleaford bearing FG with large to enormous (both sides) margins, cancelled by a central strike of dull red Maltese Cross, with "lincoln/my 8/1840" despatch c.d.s. alongside. Readdressed to "Piazza Coffee House, Covent Garden, London" with red Sleaford c.d.s. (10.5) in upper corner with manuscript "Redirected" below, marked "Prepaid" and with manuscript "1" in red ink, the Penny Black additionally crossed through; London tombstone arrival (14.5) also cancels the stamp. Horizontal filing crease barely detracts from a most unusual and interesting item of early philately, used on the third day of usage Estimate £ 800-1,000 provenance: Robson Lowe auction, April 1978 literature: May Dates, Michael Jackson, 1999 (illustrated)

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