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Auction: 5026 - The Edward Gilbert Collection of Important British Empire
Lot: 281

xBritish Guiana 1850-51 "Cottonreels" Medium Wove Paper 12c. indigo (Townsend Type C), initialled "EDW", a large cut square example clearly cancelled with Berbice double-arc d.s. for October 1851; stained and repaired pinholes though an attractive example. R.P.S. Certificate (1997). Sc. 5b; S.G. 6I, £11,000. Photo Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 provenance: Champion

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