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Auction: 11031 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Surface-Printed Issues
Lot: 20

Two and a Half Pence 1875 (1 July) Watermark Anchor Imprimaturs 2 1/2d. rosy mauve, Plate 1, AK with top margin showing the plate number, mounted in the margin only. Fine and very rare being the only plate number example in private hands Estimate £ 1,500-2,000 Note: Twenty-five stamps were removed from the imprimatur sheet, AA-AL, BB-BL and PA-PB (Royal Collection). BB is in the National Postal Museum Only two stamps show the plate number, AK and PB provenance: The Earl of Crawford, Colonel A.S. Bates, December 1934, Major K.M. Beaumont, December 1965 Dr. Douglas Latto, October 1992

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£1,500