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Auction: 8038 - Great Britain Stamps & Postal History
Lot: 1470

Great Britain Line-Engraved Issues 1840 Two Pence Blue Plate 2 MG-MK, dark blue, horizontal strip of five with crisp black Maltese Cross cancellations (MH and MK with Queen´s profile clear), good colour and with good to large margins all round, MG with vertical crease and a small scissors cut in the margin between MJ and MK; fine. A rare and beautiful strip. Photo Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance: Victoria Sale, Robson Lowe, 1975 This was said to be the finest known Plate II piece with black cancellation

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