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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1192

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

1857-59 1c. Fresh Lithographic Transfers from the 4c. value with white line above value
1c. pale dull red vertical strip of three, the top stamp being the Type D substituted transfer with the lower pair Type C, large to huge margins with each neatly cancelled by Demerara 17 April 1860 single-ring datestamp and affixed to fragment of nearly the same size. A very fine, remarkable and exceptionally rare multiple incorporating the Type D substituted transfer of which this is the only example in private hands. S.G. 16, 17, £30,000++. Photo

Note: A possible explanation for the Type D stamp is considered on page 42 of the Townsend and How handbook

provenance:
Castle
W.J. Webster, Harmer Rooke, 1941 and illustrated on page 13 of the brochure that they produced
Dale Lichtenstein, February 1969

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Sold for
£23,000