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Auction: 11027 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps & Covers Part 1
Lot: 1255

1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown Imprimaturs Plate 122, AK-AL rejoined corner pair in a rich deep red-brown showing the plate number and margin inscription; AK with pencil number in the margin and AL with margin reduced at top; both stamps show a strong ivory head from bluing of the paper. Fine Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 21 stamps were removed from the imprimatur sheet, AA-AL, RK-RL, SG-SL and TL (Royal collection) provenance: AL; Earl of Crawford Colonel A.S. Bates, December 1934, Harold Fisher, September 1983

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