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Auction: 21019 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 188

(x) Victoria
1850 Half-Lengths, Third State of dies, 1d. orange-vermilion with two good margins, touched at foot and at right, fine unused without gum. A great Half-Length rarity with only three examples recorded of which this is by far the finest. RPSV Certificate (2020). S.G. 8. Photo

Note: The last example of S.G. 8 to come on the market was in the Barelli sale by Millennium on 11 October 2006 (lot 1060), badly thinned and cut-into, sold for $12,000.

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Sold for
£19,000

Starting price
£7500