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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 834

Cape of Good Hope 1861 Woodblocks 4d. carmine error of colour, close to good margins on two sides and touched on the third, cancelled leaving large part of Hope clear; creased and with a central defect though a presentable example of this exceptionally rare colour error. B.P.A. Certificate (1982). S.G. 14ea, £95,000. Photo Estimate £ 5,000-6,000 provenance: Wilkins Sir Maxwell Joseph, October 1982 John Tolbutt, June 2002

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