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Auction: 25017 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5402

Great Britain
1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown
Unplated
GA, cut into at right, tied by Maltese Cross and Glenelg P.O. mail bag seal to 1844 (8 Jan.) entire letter from Dingwall to a "Merchant Plockton", re-addressed to "Killiree, by Lochalsh"; the reverse with Dingwall and Lochalsh d.s. Adhesive crossed by filing fold, some foxing and paper faults to reverse flap, nevertheless a most unusual usage.

literature:
Recorded and pictured in "The Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross", Vol. 3, Pg. 559

provenance:
Howard Hughes, Cavendish, April 2001

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Estimate
£400 to £600