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Auction: 26017 - The Klempka Family Collection of Great Britain - Part Three
Lot: 2613

Great Britain
Postal Stationery
Advertising Rings
Official Issues
A collection of cut-square Official issues overprinted "specimen" commencing with the embossed "PAID" oval design from the 1847 Art's Journal in rose-carmine, essay cut-outs of W.H.Smith and Stevens & Norton affixed to paper with manuscript "Specimen" and W.H.Smith cut square overprinted Specimen; a collection overprinted "specimen" type 10 with 1d. pink (7) including J.F. Pawson (2), Saunders, Oatley & Co., Samuel Allsop; 2d. blue (3) with The Home News, Samuel Allsop and Saunders, Otley; 2½d/ lake W.H. Smith; 3d. rose-red with Smith Elder and W.H. Smith (2); 8d. purple with British Workman and W.H.Smith and 1/- green with Samuel Allsop and W.H. Smith (2). An interesting and valuable collection. (24)

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