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Auction: 24026 - British Guiana Part 1 - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 65

British Guiana
1850-51 "Cottonreels"
The "Townsend" 12 Cents pale Blue with Complete Frameline
12c. black on pale blue initialled "E.D.W.", cut square with complete circular frameline (touched in two places), lightly cancelled by Berbice double-arc d.s.; tiny natural paper defect. One of the finest of only nine cut-square examples recorded in private hands, of which just two exhibit a complete frameline. R.P.S. Certificate (1966). S.G. 7I, £40,000. Photo

provenance:
W.A. Townsend, October 1969

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Sold for
£13,000

Starting price
£5000