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Auction: 20032 - Great Britain Stamps and Postal History - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 617

(x) Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate Ia
JC showing early signs of plate wear, good to large margins and well tied by a slightly smudged strike of dull red Maltese Cross on 1840 (6 Aug.) wrapper to Edinburgh, there is an indistinct straight-line handstamp in the lower corner and the arrival c.d.s. on the reverse (8.8); vertical folding crease. Fresh. Photo

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Sold for
£200

Starting price
£60