Lot 51193 – 1873 (Jan) 1d. deep green, watermark small star sideways, clean-cut perf.15, bisected diagonally on piece

1873 (Jan) 1d. deep green, watermark small star sideways, clean-cut perf.15, bisected diagonally and twice cancelled with « D » double-ring datestamp for 9 May 1877 and tied on piece of St. Georges Chronicle and Grenada Gazette newspaper, with a normal example adjacent and further strike of the datestamp below, a very rare franking which paid the rate for newspapers to the UK, ex Danforth Walker and Hackmey, cert. RPS (2003) (S.G. £9’000 on cover).