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Auction: 19039 - The 'Bartica' Collection of British Guiana Ship Type Issues
Lot: 28

(x) British Guiana
1856 Provisionals Type-set and Printed on Surface-Coloured Paper at the Official Gazette, Georgetown
Cover
1856 (24 Mar.) envelope from Demerara to Mahaicony, bearing 4c. black on magenta initialled "CAW" (C.A. Watson) and cut octagonally leaving design intact, neatly cancelled with double-arc datestamp; the adhesive with small natural surface erosion at top and small closed tear outside design at upper left, the envelope with slight ageing and cut to show another example of the despatch datestamp on reverse. A very rare stamp on cover. B.P.A. Certificate (2017). S.G. 24

provenance:
Alfred Caspary, May 1957
Robert Van Beuren Emmons, January 2017

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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000