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Auction: 19010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2452

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate Ia
PG, grey-black shade showing moderate Plate wear, close to good margins, tied by a crisp brown Maltese Cross cancellation to entire letter, dated 29 May 1840, to Winchester, with matching Newport Isle of Wight datestamp below. Fine and an extraordinarily rare and beautiful example of this distinctive coloured cancellation. Photo

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£3,000