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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2090

British Guiana
1852 (1 Jan.) Lithographed by Waterlow & Sons
Four Cents
4c. black on deep blue horizontal pair, Types I-II, two large margins, close but clear at right, slightly cut into at top, cancelled by Demerara double-arc d.s. for Sep. 17 1852. Surface rubbing as usually encountered in these delicate stamps, and thinned in the centre, still possessing much of the original colour. A very rare multiple, just five pairs are known in private ownership, being the largest multiple recorded, with four of them having some imperfections. Small (comet) handstamp on the reverse. S.G. 10, £24,000. Photo

provenance:
"Great", March 1970, lot 26

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Estimate
£3,000 to £4,000