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Auction: 16034 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3035

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate XI
ND-OF (OF constant variety), the magnificent block of six (3x2), good to large margins all round, original gum; ND thinned, vertical crease in the margin between the first and second vertical rows. A trifle discoloured, fine and extremely rare. R.P.S. Certificate (1985). Specialised AS73, £260,000 as pair and block of four. Photo

provenance:
P.C. Litchfield, April 1950
E. Dale, October 1959

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Sold for
£44,000