Lot 40449 – 1849 Postmasters’ stamps: Perot’s first issue, One
Lot 40449 – 1849 Postmasters’ stamps: Perot’s first issue, One
Lot 40449 – 1849 Postmasters’ stamps: Perot’s first issue, One
Bermuda
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Price realised
44’000 GBP
Estimate
40’000 – 50’000 GBP
Auction date
Fri 11 Dec 2015 at 12:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
1849 Postmasters’ stamps: Perot’s first issue, One Penny manuscript value, black on bluish grey wove, used on large piece of cover (to Henry Higgs, St. George’s, handwriting identified as that of N. T. Butterfield), and paying the rate for a single internal letter, stamp with some restoration but good appearance, an extremely rare stamp of which only two examples are known (SG £200’000)
Provenance: Sir Harold Reckitt, Clutterbuck, Sir Andrew Clark, Ludington, Perreault and Baron Leuhusen
Expertise: Cert. BPA (2004) Catalogue ref: O2
Catalogue
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