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Auction: 11031 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Surface-Printed Issues
Lot: 116

Four Pence 1855 (31 July) Imprimaturs Plate 2: Deep carmine on thick, glazed, highly blued paper, upper right corner showing the plate number and part margin inscription. Superb. Unique in private hands Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 Note: Two other corner examples are in the National Postal Museum (upper left corner) and in the Royal Collection (lower left corner) provenance: Dr. Douglas Latto, October 1992

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£20,000