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Auction: 25017 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5512

Great Britain
1847-54 Embossed
1/- green (Die 2) horizontal pair, cut square with mostly large margins all round, just skimming the outer frame line at lower right, overprinted with the "Frank Ives Scudamore / Chief Examiner" handstamp; vertical fold between impressions, affecting just the outer frame line of the right hand stamp, small corner bend at lower left and light wrinkling elsewhere, nevertheless a major Great Britain rarity, this being the only pair in private hands, only one other pair is known which is held in the Phillips Collection at the National Postal Museum. S.G. 55var, Spec. £15,000. Photo.

provenance:
Maximus
Sir Leonard Atkinson

literature:
Illustrated in the Stanley Gibbons, Specialised Volume I, Part I, Page 316

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Estimate
£5,000 to £6,000