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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2069

British Guiana
1850-51 "Cottonreels"
12c. black on pale blue, Townsend Type A (Robson Lowe Type B), initialled "E.D.W.", cut square with circular frameline virtually complete, cancelled by Berbice double-arc d.s. for June 12 1851, some thinning and a central pinhole barely detracting. Of great appearance with this outstanding margins, highly desirable with fewer than twenty examples of this stamp recorded in private hands, including about ten cut square. R.P.S. Certificate (1942). A very rare stamp. S.G. 7I, £40,000. Photo

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Estimate
£5,000 to £7,000