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Auction: 5026 - The Edward Gilbert Collection of Important British Empire
Lot: 279

xBritish Guiana 1850-51 "Cottonreels" Medium Wove Paper 8c. green (Townsend Type B), initialled "EDW", cut square and lightly cancelled with Berbice double-arc d.s.; small repaired thin and tiny natural pinhole. A most attractive example of this classic rarity. R.P.S. Certificate (1997). Sc. 4; S.G. 4I, £18,000. Photo Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance: Champion Ferrari Sale 2, 1921

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