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Auction: 24026 - British Guiana Part 1 - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 136

British Guiana
1856 Provisionals Type-set and printed on surface-coloured paper at the Official Gazette, Georgetown
The Earliest Recorded Example
4c. black on magenta or rose-carmine
4c. black on magenta cut octagonally with small margins, initialled "E.D.W." for postal clerk Wight, cancelled by Demerara double-arc d.s. for 8 January 1856; light corner crease at upper right and some very minor surface rubs. A very significant example of this very charismatic stamp, as it represents the earliest recorded date of use. R.P.S. Certificate (1981). S.G. 24, £25,000. Photo

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