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Auction: 11031 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Surface-Printed Issues
Lot: 279

Eight Pence 1876 (11 September) Watermark Large Garter Imprimaturs 8d. orange, Plate 2, TA with corner margins showing the plate number, part margin inscription and handstamp, with gum but a little heavily mounted which has caused a trivial hinge wrinkle or crease, large to very large margins; fresh. Unique and desirable, being the only example in private hands Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 Note: The other plate number example is in the Royal Collection 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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£6,000