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Auction: 15023 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2081

(x) Great Britain
Private Telegraph Companies
Electric Telegraph Company
1854 (1/-) "under 50 Miles" and (2/6d.) "under 100 Miles" corner plate proof blocks of four in black on card, (1/-) showing traces of two stamps at right, some light soiling. Scarce multiples. Hiscocks 1, 2. Photo

These stamps were engraved by Perkins, Bacon & Company, of 69 Fleet Street, London.

These values were printed in sheets of sixteen (4x4) and it is thought that only two proof sheets of each value were produced

provenance: (1/-) W. Edgar, March 1990

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Sold for
£600