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Auction: 17010 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The Robert Van Buren Emmons FRPSL, Collection of British Empire Classics
Lot: 1613

New South Wales
1851-59 Laureated Issues
1859 watermarked "registered" (6d.) orange and Prussian blue horizontal pair, touched at right, clearly cancelled "62", thinned but of fine appearance. An extremely rare multiple - the registration fee of 6d. applied to all mail except for certain rates to central Europe and the Americas, to which the doubled fee applied. S.G. 106. Photo

provenance:
G.J. Hutson
V.P. Manwood, November 1995

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Sold for
£450