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Auction: 6004 - British Empire Stamps & Covers, featuring Australia
Lot: 573

x New South Wales 1850 Alfred Clayton "One Penny Black" essays, composite photo-lithographic facsimile of the original essay which is in the Tapling collection in the British Library, comprising reproductions of the three 1d. essays, all a little toned/stained otherwise fine. Very rare, one of three recorded sets. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000Note: This facsimilie was produced by Alfred van Dyck, some time before the originals were sold by him to Thomas Tapling and prior to Tapling´s death in 1891

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