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Auction: 23016 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of Great Britain and British Empire- Part XVI
Lot: 1127

(x) Ceylon
1857-59
4d. dull rose, horizontal pair, cancelled by two barred cancellations and portion of bank cachet, cut into on three sides of the right hand stamp, horizontal crease at foot; nevertheless extremely rare with only three pairs recorded one of which is in the Royal Philatelic Collection. S.G. 4, £9,000+

<provenance:
Count von Ferrary
Frederic Harris, Harmer's, 1953
Gordon Bailey, Harmer's, 1962
R. C. Agabeg, Harmer's, 1982

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Sold for
£2,000