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Auction: 11027 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps & Covers Part 1
Lot: 1224

1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown Imprimaturs Plate 39, AA-AB rejoined pair in a bright red-brown shade showing the plate number and part margin inscription. Fine. Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 22 stamps were removed from the imprimatur sheet, AA-AL, BD-BL and TL (Royal collection). AA is in a particularly bright shade where a lot of the blue from the ink has been absorbed by the paper provenance: AA; Leonard H. Clark, May 1946

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