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Auction: 24012 - The Lionheart Collection of Great Britain and British Empire Part XVIII
Lot: 1132

(x) British Guiana
1853-59 Waterlow (Original Printing)
1c. vermilion, first stone, horizontal strip of four with good to large even margins, transfer types 5-8, neatly tied to piece by four clear strikes of the 'a 5 c/ 8.oc.1855' c.d.s. of Sparta and with 'demerara' double-arc datestamp; a very fine and rare multiple, only two strips of four recorded off cover. S.G. 11, £6,800+

provenance:
Clayton
Lars Amundsen, December 1967
John du Pont, June 2014
"Imperium", David Feldman, October 2021

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Sold for
£2,000

Starting price
£2000