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Auction: 11026 - The Chartwell Collection - British Empire
Lot: 143

Virgin Islands 1867 1/- with crimson frames superimposed, black and rose-carmine on greyish paper, [5] with black rectangular patch on Virgin´s left shoulder, fresh unused without gum and with the usual eccentric centreing associated with printings on this paper; fine and most attractive. S.G. 20, £750 Estimate £ 300-350 Note: A few sheets of this distinctive paper were used for the double-frame 1/- stamps. When the extended crimson framed stamps were printed on the same paper the perforation lines were spaced wider than those of the normal sheets, falling outside the heavy coloured border all round the sheet, the result being that marginal stamps are all of an abnormal size

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