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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2078

British Guiana
1852 (Jan.) Lithographed by Waterlow and Sons
The Largest Multiple Known
One Cent
1c. black on magenta, block of four, the left pair Type I, the right one Type II, neatly cancelled by Demerara double-arc d.s. for Sep. 9 1853. Block irregularly torn in two, rejoined and affixed on piece, some small surface faults and minor imperfections, not detracting from this rarity. The largest known multiple of this issue ,with only one other block of four (sold in the Greenwood British Guiana Part I) and two strips of four recorded. Pemberton, Wilson and co. handstamp on the reverse. S.G. 9, £26,000 (for four singles, unpriced as a block of four). Photo

Notes:
Edward Pemberton was a famous London dealer of the 19th century. It was he who first identified the One Cent Magenta as unique, when Wylie Hall, who had acquired McKinnon's entire collection, asked Pemberton to look at it.

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Estimate
£3,000 to £4,000