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Auction: 11026 - The Chartwell Collection - British Empire
Lot: 36

Mauritius 1848-59 "POST PAID" Issue Earliest Impressions on Thick Paper 2d. blue, [7] with "penoe" for "pence", good to large margins and unusually cancelled with both circle of bars and target, neither heavily applied and leaving much of face clear; a couple of small thins in margin at top, small crease and thin in lower right corner, nevertheless of superb appearance for this error. S.G. 5a, £32,000 Estimate £ 8,000-10,000

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