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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1200

British Guiana
The "Coventry" Collection Featuring 1852-76 Ship Stamps
1858 4c. Second Stone, Laid down from three impressions transferred from Stone 1
Used
4c. pale blue Type 5, good to very large margins and cancelled by a fine near-complete strike of the Leguan "l" December 1858 coded datestamp; small light stain at centre caused by the cancellation being touched-up, otherwise fine. Alcuri Certificate (1987). S.G. 20, £700. Photo

Note: Townsend and Howe only record this datestamp as being used in 1855-56

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Sold for
£550