Lot 40115 – The Moffat Brown Maltese Cross
1840 (Nov 8) Ent
Lot 40115 – The Moffat Brown Maltese Cross 1840 (Nov 8) Ent
Great Britain » 1840 1d Black and 1d Red plates 1a to 11
Prix réalisé
1’400 EUR
Estimation
1’000 – 1’500 EUR
Date de vente
Wed 8 Jun 2016 at 20:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
The Moffat Brown Maltese Cross
1840 (Nov 8) Entire from Moffat to Edinburgh with 1840 1d black pl.1b SJ tied by neat BROWN MALTESE CROSS, with good to very good margins, with matching boxed Moffatt ds on reverse, one of the finest such covers known, a wonderful example of the very rare “home-made” brown ink used by Moffatt Post Office (SG Spec AS 5vi, £9’500)
Literature: Rockoff and Jackson (p.439) record just two covers from Moffatt, one of which is this example
Expertise: Cert. Mike Jackson (2016)
Estimate: € 1’000 – € 1’500 Vente aux enchères
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