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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 125

Great Britain 1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown Plate 86: SI, good to very large margins all round and showing a small portion of the adjoining stamp at right, tied by a light strike of "241" barred oval of Denbigh in violet on clean, uncreased envelope addressed to Ellesmere, on reverse Rhyl (26.7) and Ellesmere (27.7) blue double-ring datestamps; the finest of the few known covers with the violet numeral cancellation. An outstanding exhibition item. R.P.S. (2007) and B.P.A. (2008) Certificates. S.G. BS29(1)xe. £11,000+. Photo Estimate £ 5,000-7,000

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