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Auction: 24029 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5803

Great Britain
The Mike Tanner Collection
Revenues
Medicine Duty
1823-75 1½d. and 3d. duty, large labels, for Parr's Life Pills in a complete sheet of twenty, plate A, the two values printed tete-beche; there are a few minor age marks and the paper beginning to split along one of the fold lines; a rare file sheet. Note that the press could only accommodate the plate for a single sheet, the paper needed to be turned by 180 degrees to print the second sheet, which was then separated by guillotine

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£180