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Auction: 21012 - Stamps & Covers of Great Britain, including the Windsor Collection - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 2353

Great Britain
1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown
Plate 23: BC, clear to large margins tied by an exceptional strike of the distinctive York Maltese cross in black on wrapper to Richmond, York despatch (28.7.42) and Richmond arrival (29.7.42) to reverse; rare with circa thirty covers recorded with this cross on the 1841 1d. red

provenance:
"Maximus", Part IV, 1970
"Durham", 1994
Recorded and illustrated in Rockoff/Jackson, pg. 307/308

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£500