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Auction: 6021 - Great Britain Stamps & Covers
Lot: 454

Great Britain Line-Engraved Issues 1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown Arranged by Plate 5, PB re-entry, pre-provisional printing, state 2, large to enormous margins nearly all round (just touched at foot), on neat clean entire letter from Oxford to London dated 18 May 1841, tied by fine strike of the black Maltese Cross; fine and most attractive. An extremely rare printing and unique used on a cover. S.G. Spec. AS34, Cat. £3250 off-cover. B.P.A. Cert. (1975). Photo Estimate £ 2,000-2,500provenance: Howard, 1994 Buranasombati, 2001

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