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Auction: 20042 - The Lady Joan Joicey Collection of Great Britain - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 7

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate 1a
CC in a light shade showing some signs of the worn plate, good to large margins, almost touching at foot, part original gum with some old hinge remnants and showing some of the typical gum wrinkling. A good example with sharp printing and showing the vertical guide lines in the N.E. and "C" squares. S.G. AS2, £18,000

purchased:
Charles Nissen, 1927 (£4.0.0)

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£580