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Auction: 24026 - British Guiana Part 1 - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 179

British Guiana
1863-76 Ship Issues
Internal Mail
1870 (28 Feb.) envelope ex the Pontifex" correspondence from Zorg to Berbice, bearing 1866 perf 10 12c. grey-lilac trisected vertically and tied by "a 2 c" coded c.d.s. (Type D2) and showing, on reverse, another strike of the coded c.d.s., Demerara and Berbice datestamps; the envelope with some damage at top caused through opening and other faults. Extremely rare, only a handful of examples recorded. R.P.S. Certificate (1994). Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe sale, May 1995

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£1200