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Auction: 1013 - The Alexander Reid Collections of Antiqua, Cayman islands and Ceylon
Lot: 38

Ceylon 1857 (1 Apr.) Blued Paper, Watermark Star, Imperforate Issued Stamp 6d. purple-brown with good to large margins, unused without gum, fine. Rare in such quality. B.P.A. Certificate (1989). S.G. 1, £12,000. Photo Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 provenance: H.J. Duveen Frederic R. Harris, February 1951

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£6,000