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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1172

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

1853 Original Printing 1c. Vermilion
Issued Stamps
1c. vermilion with clear to very large margins showing portion of adjoining stamp at top, neatly cancelled with near-complete William's Town "a 3 c" August 1855 coded datestamp; small brown mark at top on reverse, otherwise fine and unusual with this coded datestamp. S.G. 11, £1,700. Photo

provenance:
Maurice Burrus, November 1963

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Sold for
£520