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Auction: 7033 - British Empire Stamps & Covers
Lot: 677

British Guiana Covers and Cancellations Inland Mail 1853 (14 Feb.) entire from Demerara to Berbice, bearing 1852 (1 Jan.) surface-coloured paper 4c. black on deep blue Type B, exceptional colour and with good margins on three sides, touched at top, neatly cancelled with double-arc d.s., the reverse despatch and arrival (15.2) d.s.; the entire with vertical and horizontal creases well clear of the adhesive though of fine appearance. A choice item of exhibition quality. B.P.A. (1960) and R.P.S. (1961) Certificates. Photo Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 provenance: W.S. Davy, 1960 Lars Amundsen, 1967 Claude Cartier, 1977

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