Lot 60020 – 1850-51 12 cents black on indigo, Townsend Type B,
Lot 60020 – 1850-51 12 cents black on indigo, Townsend Type B,
British Guiana
Price realised
48’000 EUR
Estimate
3’000 – 4’000 EUR
Auction date
ven. 27 juin 2014 at 17:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
1850-51 12 cents black on indigo, Townsend Type B, so-called sugar paper shade, with initials of postal clerk Wight “EDW”, cut round, with central Demerara datestamp MR 21 1851 (SG £8’500)
The rarest shade of the 12 cents
Expertise: Cert. BPA (2014) classified it as SG 5 Catalogue ref: 6
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