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Auction: 12021 - The Chartwell Collection - GB Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps and Covers - Part IV
Lot: 281

1840 Two Pence Blue
Plate 1
Covers
1841 (12 July) large entire being the Weekly Return by the Steward at Thirlstane Castle to the Earl of Lauderdale in Dunbar, bearing FA in pale blue cancelled by a double strike of black Maltese Cross, the reverse with fine strikes of Lauder and Dunbar boxed datestamps and and Edinburgh transit c.d.s.; light vertical filing crease but still fresh and a most interesting historical document

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£480