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Auction: 21040 - Stamps and Postal History of Great Britain
Lot: 1203

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate VII
NH, generally large margins, tied by watery purple-brown Maltese Cross on 1841 (18 Feb.) part entire to Glasgow with "26" receiving house mark in matching ink, two Glasgow datestamps on reverse. Fine and rare. M. Jackson Certificate (2012). Specialised AS46vd, £8,500. Photo

Note: Maltese Crosses on covers put in at Receiving Houses of the old Glasgow Penny Post system display an unusual range of purplish colours. This cover is recorded by Rockoff and Jackson in the Encyclopedia of the Maltese Cross, Vol. 3, Pg. 427.

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£1,400

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£800