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Auction: 14019 - The "Foxley" Collections of British Guiana and British Honduras
Lot: 1227

British Guiana
1876 Ship Issue
Covers
1881 (23 Apr.) 4c. registered envelope ex "Winch Bros" correspondence from Berbice to Colchester, uprated with 8c. rose cancelled by light "A04" obliterator, showing framed "british/guiana/registered" h.s. (Type R1) and Registered London d.s. (18.5), both in red, and light Georgetown transit datestamp with superb "registered/new amsterdam" red wax seal on reverse. Photo

Note: The writer, Vernon Vaughan, as a schoolboy in 1873 had discovered the unique 1856 1c. stamp and sold it for 6/-.

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Sold for
£650