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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1287

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 reason1863-76 New Transfers and Designs
1875-76 Perf. 15

1c. intense black upper left corner block of four, 4th. Setting, Types A-B, large part original gum, one stamp with a brown mount at top, the other three stamps remaining unmounted; two small gum wrinkles, otherwise fine. S.G. 106, £280+. Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, April 1988

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Sold for
£100