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Auction: 19058 - The Davies Collection of Great Britain and selected other Countries
Lot: 129

(x) Great Britain
Official Stamps
Board of Education
1902-04 1/- dull green and carmine, remarkably fresh colours on brilliant white paper, unused with part original gum with a single hinge remainder at top. A superb example of this exceptionally rare stamp, second only in rarity to the Inland Revenue 6d. B.P.A. Certificate (2003). Sc. O71; S.G. O87, £160,000. Photo

provenance:
H.R. Harmer, May 1980
William Frazer, May 2003
Chartwell, December 2011

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Sold for
£100,000

Starting price
£48000