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Auction: 23016 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of Great Britain and British Empire- Part XVI
Lot: 1289

(x) Trinidad
1861 Rowland Hill Cancelled
Rough perf. 14-16½ 1/- deep bluish purple, cancelled by small part of the 'cancelled' obliterator in black, [3] of the block of six in the Peter Jaffé handbook, five of which have been identified and one is held in the Royal Philatelic Collection; very fine and extremely rare. S.G. 59, £9,000

provenance:
Hodsell Hurlock, June 1958
Sir John Marriott, 2001
Besancon, 2020


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Estimate
£3,500 to £4,000