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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1555

Great Britain
Postal History
1744 (21 Jan.) entire letter from France to Dublin, rated "2" in error, deleted and re-rated, showing very fine strikes of the horseshoe "counterfeit/2" and "recharged" alongside, the former extremely rare, the latter unrecorded in this format; slightly rubbed horizontal filing fold and small corner fault clear of the handstamps. An extraordinarily rare and important item. Photo

provenance:
Spink sale, June 2001

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Estimate
£800 to £1,000