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Auction: 19039 - The 'Bartica' Collection of British Guiana Ship Type Issues
Lot: 26

(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), good margins all round and most unusually cancelled with "w" coded datestamp of Wakenaam; tear at right, variously repaired and repainted though a presentable example of this very rare stamp, exceptionally cancelled and very seldom seen with coded datestamp. B.P.A. Certificate (2014). S.G. 25, £40,000. Photo

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£4,200