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Auction: 1014 - Collector's Series - Stamps
Lot: 1228

Great Britain Line Engraved Proofs and Essays Cancellation Trials 1840 1d. black Plate Ia, a horizontal pair lettered GI-GJ with large balanced margins, affixed to a piece of laid paper, GI tied by a superb clear strike of the red Maltese Cross and GJ tied by a very fine clear strike of the black London "T/MY - 13/1840" circular date stamp, the piece inscribed "Obliterating stamp" and "dated stamp in ink" denoting the respective cancellations; fine. The finest of all the known examples of this cancellation trial, including that of R.M. Phillips in the National Postal Museum. A spectacular Great Britain rarity, of major importance and worthy of the greatest Exhibit. Photo Estimate £ 100,000-120,000 provenance: "The Northbrook Papers" Christies Robson Lowe December 1996 Literature: "The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century" (second edition) by Robson Lowe page 119

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