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Auction: 11031 - The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain Surface-Printed Issues
Lot: 709

1883-91 High Values 1891 (28 January) £1 Green Imprimatur £1 green, OD with full sheet margin at right, fresh with large part original gum; a little gum creasing and with two diagonal creases in margin, one of which crosses the "D" square; accompanied by a piece of Inland Revenue paper marked "E 5864/90 New color (green) for £1 Postage Stamps", and a photograph of the Plate 2 imprimatur sheet with eleven stamps removed. Exceptionally rare with only three examples recorded in private hands. Cat. £30,000 Estimate £ 10,000-12,000 provenance: Ernest Dale, June 1969 Dr. Douglas Latto, October 1992 (Illustrated on the front cover) Note: Eleven stamps have been removed from the imprimatur sheet, four of which were subsequently returned after being on exhibition. One is in the Royal Collection and three in the British Postal Museum & Archive, of which two are in the R.M. Phillips collection. The three stamps which remain in private hands are ND, OD (offered above) and PD

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