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Auction: 24026 - British Guiana Part 1 - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 63

British Guiana
1850-51 "Cottonreels"
12c. black on indigo, initialled "H.A.K.", cut round with small part outer frameline, cancelled by Demerara double-arc d.s. for 31 October 1851, fine. The rarest shade of the 12 cents, of which only eleven examples are recorded according to Townsend. Another very rare example in sound condition. B.P.A. Certificate (1996). S.G. 6II, £14,000. Photo

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£8,000

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£2000