image

Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 12021 - The Chartwell Collection - GB Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps and Covers - Part IV
Lot: 166

1840 One Penny Black
Plate II
Covers
1840 (11 July) large cover front to Newcastle under Lyme bearing EC-FC vertical pair with serpentine cuts along sides which cuts into the stamps in places and show parts of the adjacent stamps, manuscript alongside, "2 stamps" in black ink and tied by dull red Maltese Cross; much creasing and soiling. A very unusual private roulette of unknown status sold as is

Sold for
£1,700