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Auction: 176 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Auction
Lot: 429

1882 £5 Pale dull orange on bluish paper, lettered AB, select centering, crisp centrally-struck "Leeds 9 FE 89" c.d.s., fresh color, barest trace of a wrinkle in lower right margin, devoid of the usual faults that plague this issue, a beautiful example of this rare stamp, scarce in such choice condition, very fine. (Sc 93a, S.G. 133, £15,000)

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$2,000