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Auction: 14031 - Great Britain from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 9

Great Britain
1852-53 One Penny Red-Brown
Imprimatures Alphabet II
Plate 161, AL corner example in dark red-brown showing plate number and inscription, other margins very large, no blueing of the paper; with typical horizontal crease in the top margin. A very fresh and important positional example. Photo

provenance: Earl of Crawford,
Colonel A.S. Bates, December 1934,
Red Cross and St. John Fund, May 1943

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£2,000