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Auction: 24026 - British Guiana Part 1 - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 97

British Guiana
1853 Waterlow Original Printing One Cent Vermilion
The "Burrus" 1 Cent Strip of Four on Cover
Issued Stamps
1853 (22 Feb.) blue envelope ex the Barlow correspondence to Mahaicony, bearing 1c. vermilion strip of four Types 1-4 with mainly small to good margins, the right-hand pair touched at top, clearly tied by Demerara double-arc d.s. One of three recorded covers exhibiting four examples of this stamp (all three bearing a strip of four), this being unique with intact margins.. S.G. 11. Photo

provenance:
M. Burrus, November 1963
W.A. Townsend, October 1969
"Great", March 1970

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Sold for
£5,000

Starting price
£3200