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Auction: 19039 - The 'Bartica' Collection of British Guiana Ship Type Issues
Lot: 27

(x) British Guiana
1856 Provisionals Type-set and Printed on Surface-Coloured Paper at the Official Gazette, Georgetown
Used
4c. black on blue initialled "EDW" (E.D. Wight), good margins on three sides, a little closer at top which just clears the design light Demerara double-arc datestamp; various creases and a central thin though of generally good appearance and a very collectable example of this immensely rare stamp of which few examples are recorded. Rendon (1993) and B.P.A. (2008) Certificates. S.G. 26, £150,000. Photo

provenance:
"Sovereign", May 2008

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Sold for
£66,000