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Auction: 19010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2492

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate X
JF, original gum, just touched at upper right, good to very large margins other sides and showing a trace of the adjoining stamp at upper left; small tear at top just into the "p" of "postage" and usual brownish patination of the gum. An attractive example of the rarest of all the plates in unused condition. Holcombe Certificate (1995). Specialised AS66, £24,000. Photo

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Sold for
£580