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Auction: 17015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The "Foxley" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 1800

Great Britain
1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown
"Black" Plates
Plate 11: CA good to very large margins all round, tied by a wonderful strike of the extremely rare orange-red Maltese Cross of Ixworth, to entire letter, dated 2 July 1841 to Leeds, a framed "Ixworth/Penny Post" additionally just ties the adhesive, dated markings of Bury St. Edmonds and Leeds on the reverse; light horizontal filing fold and slight stains not detracting from this marvellous entire. M. Jackson Certificate (2017). Specialised AS74va. Photo

literature:
Rockoff and Jackson mention this cover and one other (ex the same correspondence) bearing two 1d. reds on page 397 in volume III of the "Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross"

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Estimate
£25,000 to £30,000