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Auction: 1014 - Collector's Series - Stamps
Lot: 1360

Great Britain 1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown Black Plates Plate 5, pre-provisional printing, CC state 3, good to large margins, tied by distorted/stretched Maltese Cross cancellation on 1841 (22 Nov.) entire from Ipswich to Dereham; light filing folds clear of the adhesive, fine and rare. Illustrated on page 360 of "The encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross Cancellations of Great Britain and Ireland" by Rockoff and Jackson. An extraordinary combination of a rare stamp and a unique cancellation on cover. Photo Estimate £ 700-800

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