Lot 30280 – THE UNIQUE CUT-ROUND 4 CENTS ON PELURE PAPER ON COVER
THE UNIQUE CUT-ROUND 4 CENTS ON PELURE PAPER ON COVER
1850-51, 4 cents black on pale yellow pelure paper, Townsend type B, used on cover (with full letter enclosed) to Georgetown, cut round with clear to predominantly wide margins, showing central datestamp of Demerara on 7 February 1851, tying the stamp at foot, with affixing paste showing through this fragile pelure paper; (SG £96’000+).
One of only two covers recorded, exhibiting a « Cotton Reel » on pelure paper, both offered in this sale and displaying different types of separation: round and square.
Provenance:
W. J. Webster (1942)
John E. du Pont (Lot 60003, David Feldman SA, June 2014)
« Imperium » (Lot 30053, David Feldman SA, October 2021)
Expertise: Cert. BPA (2014)
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