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Auction: 11027 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps & Covers Part 1
Lot: 1492

1858-79 Plate Number Issues 1860-70 Three Halfpence Imprimatur Plate 1, BI-BL horizontal strip of four in rosy mauve with sheet margin at right, close to very large margins. These stamps show an extraordinary amount of very sharp bluing, probably the most dramatic of all of the Line Engraved issues. A fine and very rare multiple of unusual beauty. Cat £34,000 as singles Estimate £ 10,000-12,000 Thirty-eight stamps were removed from the imprimatur sheet, AA-AL, BA-BL, CA-CH, CK-CK, DA, DL and TL (Royal collection)

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