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Auction: 19039 - The 'Bartica' Collection of British Guiana Ship Type Issues
Lot: 24

(x) British Guiana
1856 Provisionals Type-set and Printed on Surface-Coloured Paper at the Official Gazette, Georgetown
Used
4c. black on magenta initialled "CAW" (C.A. Wilson), cut octagonally and with design outer lettering just touched in places, most unusually cancelled with "a 5 c" coded datestamp of Sparta; surface rubbed and other faults though of generally good appearance and very rarely found with a coded datestamp. Brandon Certificate (1999). S.G. 24, £25,000. Photo

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Estimate
£2,000 to £3,000