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Lot 30032 – 1850-51, 12 cents black on blue, Townsend Type B, with initials of postal clerk Wight “EDW

Lot 30032 – 1850-51, 12 cents black on blue, Townsend Type B, with initials of postal clerk Wight “EDW
British Guiana » 1850 Cotton-Reels (SG 1-8)
Price realised
11’000 GBP
Estimate
7’000 – 10’000 GBP
Auction date
Thu 14 Oct 2021 at 17:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

1850-51, 12 cents black on blue, Townsend Type B, with initials of postal clerk Wight “EDW”, cut square with spectacularly large margins at left and right, being clear on other sides, displaying light 9 May 1851 Demerara datestamp, small thin at right not detracting from the great freshness, very rare; (SG £35’000).

Provenance:

W. J. Webster (Lot 7, Harmer Rooke, February 1942)

John E. du Pont (Lot 60015, David Feldman SA, June 2014)

Expertise: Signed Roger Calves, Cert. BPA (2014)

Catalogue ref: SG 5

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