Auction: 11027 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps & Covers Part 1
Lot: 1306
1854-61 Perforated One Penny Red-Brown 1854 First Official Perforated Issue Imprimaturs Reserve Plates R7 to R14 in shades of red-brown to deep red brown, AK or TK (R12) with sheet margin, other margins close to large and with varying degrees of bluing of the paper; each with pencil number in the margin. A very rare and desirable set. Cat. £32,000 Estimate £ 12,000-15,000 21 stamps were removed from each imprimatur sheet, each sheet with AA-AL except R12 which had the lower row, TA-TL, removed
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£8,500