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Auction: 21019 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 649

Grenada
The Stamps
1873 (Jan.) Watermark Small Star Sideways, Clean-cut Perf. 15
1d. deep green (2), one bisected diagonally twice cancelled with "D" double-ring datestamp for 9 May 1877 and tied on piece of "St. George's Chronicle and Grenada Gazette" newspaper with a further strike of the datestamp below. A very rare franking which paid the rate for newspapers to the U.K. R.P.S. Certificate (2003) states "is genuine as far as one can say of a small piece". S.G. 10a, £9,000 on cover. Photo

provenance:
W. Danforth Walker, June 2003

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Estimate
£800 to £1,000

Starting price
£650