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Auction: 7033 - British Empire Stamps & Covers
Lot: 650

British Guiana Covers and Cancellations The Early Codemark Cancellations — 2nd. Series "w 3 c" cancelling 1861 2c. orange vertical pair and 4c. pale blue horizontal pair tied on 1862 (24 Mar.) envelope from Verenoegen to St. Philip, Barbados, rated "1" and "4" and showing Barbados double-arc d.s. (10.5) and code "3" c.d.s. (12.5), all on face, the reverse with a further superb coded d.s. and Georgetown (24.3) c.d.s. Surely one of the finest and most attractive of the few recorded coded datestamp covers. Photo Estimate £ 500-600 provenance: W. A. Townsend, 1969

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