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Auction: 12013 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 736

Prince Edward Island First Issue 1861 (1 Jan.) Rouletted 2d. rose showing roulettes or traces thereof on three sides well-centred and cancelled by 8 bar oval of Charlotte Town; small repaired tear at foot, small thin at top left corner, a little soiled and slightly discoloured, nevertheless a choice example of this major British North America rarity. Signed by Charles Phillips on reverse. Only five examples are recorded, one in the British Library and another in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen. P.F. (1969) and R.P.S. (1999) Certificates. S.G. 5, £12,000. Photo Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 provenance: Dale Lichtenstein, May 1969

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£7,500