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Auction: 24026 - British Guiana Part 1 - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 52

British Guiana
1850-51 "Cottonreels"
The "Ferrary" and "Burrus" 8 Cents Cut Square Example
The "Ferrary" & "Burrus" 8 Cents Cut-Square Example
8c. black on green Type C, initialled "E.D.W.", cut square with circular frameline touched at foot and at left, excellent colour, cancelled by light Berbice double-arc d.s. in 1850, fine. A lovely and most desirable example; according to our records, the finest of only five cut-square examples recorded, additionally being one of just two in sound condition -both offered in this sale - (fewer than ten cut square and cut round examples are faultless). A gem of this issue. Robson Lowe Opinion (1963). S.G. 4I, £70,000. Photo

provenance:
Philipp von Ferrary, Sale 2, October 1921
M. Burrus, November 1963

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Sold for
£18,000

Starting price
£16000