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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1166

British Guiana
The "Coventry" Collection Featuring 1852-76 Ship Stamps
1852 (1 Jan.) Lithographed by Waterlow & Sons on Surfaced-Coloured paper
4c. black on deep blue Type I, good to large margins, lightly cancelled with Demerara 1853 double-arc datestamp; a couple of surface abrasions towards upper left and closed thin below the marginal abrasion, nevertheless an attractive example of this rare and delicate stamp. S.G. 10, £12,000. Photo

provenance:
Count von Ferrary
Christie's New York, May 1993

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Sold for
£3,500