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Auction: 13036 - The "Lionheart" Collection of Great Britain and British Empire - Part I.
Lot: 2003

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate 5, DC, large to enormous margins all round and tied by two strikes of vermilion-red Maltese Cross on 1840 (26 Nov.) letter to Oxford with a superb strike of framed "posted after/6 oclock at night" in red alongside; faint London despatch and arrival c.d.s. on reverse; also unused 2d. Mulready envelope, a201; fine but a little aged. (2 covers). Photo

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£1,900