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Lot 30023 – 1850-51 8 cents black on blue-green, Townsend Type D, faint initials “EDW”, thick frame

Lot 30023 – 1850-51 8 cents black on blue-green, Townsend Type D, faint initials “EDW”, thick frame
British Guiana » 1850 Cotton-Reels (SG 1-8)
Price realised
18’000 GBP
Estimate
6’000 – 8’000 GBP
Auction date
Thu 14 Oct 2021 at 17:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

1850-51, 8 cents black on blue-green, Townsend Type D, faint initials “EDW”, thick frame, cut hexagonally with very large margins all around, cancelled by two strikes of Demerara datestamp on 26 November 1850, small thin at lower left in the margin clear of stamp design; very rare and most desirable with these extraordinary margins, which rank this stamp in a category much above the majority of the cut-square examples; (SG £16’000).

Provenance:

William Augustus Townsend (Lot 5, Harmer’s London, October 1969, illustrated on the front cover)

John E. du Pont (Lot 60005, David Feldman SA, June 2014)

Expertise: Cert. BPA (2014)

Catalogue ref: SG 4

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