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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2067

British Guiana
1850-51 "Cottonreels"
A "Ferrary" 12 Cents Pale Blue
12c. black on pale blue, Townsend Type A (Robson Lowe Type B), initialled "E.D.W.", cut square with circular frameline almost intact, just slightly cut into at the top, with at least more than half of the few surviving examples displaying less attractive margins, cancelled by Demerara double-arc d.s. for July 25 1851. Some thinning and staining, neither of which affects the very fine appearance and premium quality with these margins. Fewer than twenty examples of this stamp are recorded available to collectors, of which about ten are cut square, and this is one of the finest. Ferrary handstamp on the reverse. Holcombe certificate (1993) "A fine looking cut square copy of this rarity". S.G. 7I, £40,000. Photo

provenance:
Ferrary sale II, October 1921, lot 191 (très bel ex.)

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Estimate
£8,000 to £10,000