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Auction: 24029 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5273

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate 7
KE and OI, used with Plate 8 BA and BB, clear to huge margins and two showing portions of adjoining stamps, arranged as a strip of four and tied by black Maltese Cross cancellations to long entire to Grosvenor Square, with straight line Picadilly in black, superb 14 Oct. 1840 datestamp; vertical filing fold clear of the adhesives, fine. A very rare mixed Plate cover and from the period of experimental use of the black Maltese Cross

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Estimate
£3,000 to £4,000

Starting price
£2100