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Auction: 24026 - British Guiana Part 1 - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 139

British Guiana
1856 Provisionals Type-set and printed on surface-coloured paper at the Official Gazette, Georgetown
4c. black on magenta or rose-carmine
4c. black on rose-carmine, cut octagonally with close to small margins, initialled "E.D.W." for postal clerk Wight, cancelled by Demerara double-arc d.s. for 10 September 1856; trace of thins of little significance for this stamp mostly affected by faults, not detracting from the fine appearance and being one of fewer than twenty known. S.G. 25, £40,000. Photo

provenance:
"Great", March 1970

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Sold for
£4,800

Starting price
£1500