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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1163

British Guiana
The "Coventry" Collection Featuring 1852-76 Ship Stamps

1850-51 "Cottonreels"
12c. indigo with thick frame, Townsend Type A with break in frame over "g" and "u" and initialled "WHL" (W.H. Lorimer), cut-square and with good to large margins on three sides, frameline, cancelled with partially light Demerara double-arc datestamp. A fine and attractive example of this rare stamp. R.P.S. Certificate (1950) submitted by Tommy Allen and B.PA. Certificate (1978). S.G. 6I, £45,000. Photo

provenance:
Count von Ferrary

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Sold for
£13,000