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Auction: 6010 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World - Washington Philatelic Exhibition Auction
Lot: 126

Great Britain 1840 1d. plate 1a, QD, good to very large margins, on entire to Manchester tied by very fine strike of the orange-red Maltese Cross of Liverpool, the reverse with fine clear red "liverpool/my 6/1840" double-arc despatch datestamp; the address details with some light toning or water staining, part of address chemically removed and partially re-instated, otherwise fine. Extremely rare Estimate US$ 50,000-60,000provenance J de R Phillp, November 1959

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$45,000