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Auction: 1014 - Collector's Series - Stamps
Lot: 1352

Great Britain 1840 Two Pence Blue Plate 2 EA, in a deep blue shade, close to very large margins (perhaps just touched at lower right) and showing part of the adjacent stamp at top, on clean envelope addressed to Peter O Brien Esq, Stamp Office, Limerick", and endorsed "Prepaid", the reverse showing despatch (Kilrush), transit (Ennis) and arrival (Limerick) double-arc d.s. for 1 May 1845; some slight faults but not detracting from the attractive appearance. Photo Estimate £ 250-300

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