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Auction: 17021 - Great Britain with Post Offices in Central and South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australasia - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 329

(x) Ceylon
Later Issues
1861-64 rough perf. 14 to 15½ 2/- dull blue, neatly cancelled with two part strikes of the Perkins Bacon "cancelled" obliterator presented to Ormond Hill, good colour and with perforations on all sides. Extremely rare, being one of only three recorded examples of the six examples prepared, one being in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. S.G. 37, £11,000. Photo

Note: This stamp is position 3 in the vertical block of six

provenance:
Ernest B. Lye
Peter Jaffé
D.J. Norris, July 2006

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Sold for
£9,500