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Auction: 11031 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Surface-Printed Issues
Lot: 350

One Shilling 1856 (1 November) Watermark Emblems Imprimaturs Plate 1, 1/- green on blue, glazed paper, top left corner example showing the plate number and part margin inscription, very large margins; some slight discolouration of the blueing in the margin and trivial wrinkling. A magnificent and iconic plate number stamp, unique in private hands Estimate £ 5,000-7,000 Note: The other plate number examples are in the Royal Collection and National Postal Museum provenance: The Earl of Crawford Colonel A.S. Bates, December 1934 Major K.M. Beaumont, December 1965 Gerald E. Wellburn, December 1976 Dr. Douglas Latto, October 1992

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£7,500