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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1237

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

1860-76 Issues
Stamps from the various printings offered in this section are often found poorly centred. The owner has searched for many years to find examples that are well to superbly well-centred The stamps offered below are, in the main, some of the best that one can find, and exceptional for this reason
1863 Medium Paper, Perf. 12½-13

4c. blue block of four, the lower left stamp with which mark between "m" and "u" of "damus", lightly mounted mint with the lower pair remaining unmounted. S.G. 61, £560+. Photo

provenance:
Dale Lichtenstein, February 1963
Christie's Robson Lowe, September 1988

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Sold for
£350