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Auction: 11027 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps & Covers Part 1
Lot: 1254

1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown Imprimaturs Plate 116, AK-AL rejoined corner pair in deep red-brown showing plate number and margin inscription; AK with pencil number in margins, AL with top margin just shaved at edge, hinge remainder on front, both stamps with ivory head form the blued paper. Fine Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 21 stamps were removed from the imprimatur sheet, AA-AL, HK-HL, IG-IL and TL (Royal collection) provenance: AL; Earl of Crawford Colonel A.S. Bates, December 1934 literature: AL; The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part 2, R.P.S.L., 1962 (illustrated)

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