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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 1046

Cape of Good Hope 1853 Issue on Deeply Blued Paper 1d. pale brick-red with clear to large margins, unused with part original gum, lovely colour; tiny corner crease and trace of an age mark in opposite lower corner, neither affecting the fine appearance of this rare stamp. B.P.A. Certificate (1965). S.G. 1, £3,750. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-1,800 provenance: "Salisbury", September 1985

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