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Auction: 22025 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 351

(x) Malta
1860 (13 Dec.) entire letter from Valletta to Mosta, bearing 1860 (Dec.) blued paper, no watermark ½d. brown-ochre neatly tied by "M" obliterator, very fine. The earliest use of the halfpenny stamp and the only recorded example of the use of an "M" cancellation which can be directly associated with a date of use. B.P.A. Certificate (2010). (Smith 10500). S.G. 1. Photo


provenance:
Clive Smith, December 2009

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Sold for
£15,000