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Auction: 11031 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Surface-Printed Issues
Lot: 465

Five Shillings 1867 (1 July) Watermark Maltese Cross Imprimaturs 5/- carmine-pink Plate 4, Watermark Maltese Cross, AA corner example showing current number "454", part marginal inscription and part "postage/5s" handstamp in blue, large part original gum with the stamp virtually unmounted; some creasing in margins though a most attractive example of this rare imprimatur which the issued stamp is Watermark Anchor. Cat. from £16,000 Estimate £ 12,000-15,000 provenance: Dr. Douglas Latto, October 1992

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£12,000