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Auction: 19039 - The 'Bartica' Collection of British Guiana Ship Type Issues
Lot: 25

(x) British Guiana
1856 Provisionals Type-set and Printed on Surface-Coloured Paper at the Official Gazette, Georgetown
Used
4c. black on rose-carmine initialled "EDW" (E.D. Wight), cut leaving outer lettering virtually intact, neatly cancelled with Demerara double-arc datestamp for for August (day unclear) 1856. R.P.S. Certificate (1998) states "the letters of "british" and some of the Demerara obliteration have been inked over. Extensive surface abrasions and some thins repaired" nevertheless a presentable example of this very rare stamp. S.G. 25, £40,000. Photo

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Estimate
£4,000 to £5,000