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Auction: 22018 - The Klempka Family Collection of Great Britain - Part One
Lot: 127

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate 1a
BA (worn plate), plate 5, QG and plate 6, PG and PI, used together on 1841 (19 Apr.) long entire from London to Edinburgh, margins all round (mostly large to very large, QG just clipped at foot), tied by fine strikes of the black Maltese Cross, alongside "more/to/pay" in double-circle and light "T.P/Lisson Grove", both in black, adjacent, hand endorsed "2 oz" in ink; the address panel with two archive folds not affecting the adhesives. An exhibition item of the highest grade, most likely the only cover in existence bearing three different plates of the 1840 1d.

provenance:
Spink auction, October 2004

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Sold for
£2,800

Starting price
£1000