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Auction: 24026 - British Guiana Part 1 - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 339

British Guiana
Covers and Cancellations
Coded Datestamps
"A.3.C." (Queens Town): 1862 (21 Nov.) envelope ex the Anstie correspondence from Queenstown to Wiltshire, bearing 1862 thin paper, perf. 12 12c. purple cancelled by a superb strike of the "b g/a 3 c" coded c.d.s. (Type D2) with London Paid datestamp 14.12) alongside, the reverse with a further fine strike of the coded datestamp, Demerara (21.12) and Devizes (15.12) datestamps. Fine and very rare. See Townsend & Howe page 267. Photo

provenance:
"Coventry", April 2019

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