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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1196

British Guiana
The "Coventry" Collection Featuring 1852-76 Ship Stamps
1858 4c. Second Stone, Laid down from three impressions transferred from Stone 1
Unused
4c. pale blue Types 5 and 6 marginal pair from the left of the sheet in a delightful pastel shade, large margins on three sides and 18mm. sheet margin at left, fresh unused without gum; tiny thin in top margin and traces of creasing though of outstanding appearance and a very rare multiple. S.G. 20, £4,500+. Photo

Note: The new stone was built up from a strip of three of the first stone, being a direct transfer of types 5, 6 and 7

provenance:
W.J. Webster, Harmer Rooke, 1941
Alfred Caspary, May 1957
Dale Lichtenstein, February 1969
Claude Cartier, April 1977

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Sold for
£3,200