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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1305

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

1860-76 Issues, Covers
To France
1866 (23 July) double rate entire from Georgetown to Paris, bearing 1863-68 perf. 12½-13 6c. greenish blue, 24c. yellow-green and 1868-71 2c. orange twice cancelled by "A03" duplex, showing crayon rate marks, London Paid datestamp (13.8), circular-framed "pd" all in red and "angl./amb. calais" datestamp (13.8), Puteaux arrival datestamp 914.8) on reverse. A rare and most attractive three-colour ranking. Holcombe Certificate (1983). Photo

Note: See Townsend & Howe for comments on the Anglo-French Postal Convention markings

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Sold for
£1,400