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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1165

British Guiana
The "Coventry" Collection Featuring 1852-76 Ship Stamps
1852 (1 Jan.) Lithographed by Waterlow & Sons on Surfaced-Coloured paper
1c. black on magenta with stop after "guiana", good to large margins and neatly cancelled by centrally struck and near-complete Demerara "jy 20/1855" double-arc datestamp; free of the usual surface abrasions and a very fine and attractive example of this rare stamp. B.P.A. Certificate (1969). S.G. 9, £5,500. Photo

provenance:
Alfred H. Caspary, May 1957
Dale Lichtenstein, February 1969
"Dallas", July 1990

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Sold for
£2,900