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Auction: 11027 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps & Covers Part 1
Lot: 1236

1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown Imprimaturs Plate 77, AA-AB rejoined pairs of plate 77 and plate 77b in deep to dark red-brown with some plum overtones, each showing the plate number, "77" and "b 77", and margin inscription; some stamps with slight trimming of the top margin. A remarkable and highly desirable matched pair. Plate 77 was issued with the variety "B blank" instead of "BA" which was corrected and the plate given the "B" prefix Estimate £ 5,000-6,000 22 stamps were removed from both imprimatur sheets. Plate 77, AA-AL, BE-BL, TK and TL (Royal collection); plate 77b, AA-AL, RG-RL, SJ-SL and TL (Royal collection) provenance: AA from plate 77 and 77b, both Leonard H. Clark, May 1946, Father Arnold Jordan, November 1962, Harold Fisher, September 1983

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