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Auction: 11027 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps & Covers Part 1
Lot: 1309

1854-61 Perforated One Penny Red-Brown 1855 Introduction of Die II Imprimaturs Plate 2, AL in purple-brown with corner sheet margins showing the plate number and margin inscription, other margins are large, bluing of the paper giving ivory head, part manuscript "2" on the margin; tiny thin in top margin. Fine and attractive 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

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