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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2112

British Guiana
1857-59 Fresh Lithographic Transfers from the 4c. value with white line above value
Type B
1859 (1 Dec.) entire addressed to London, charged '6' in manuscript and bearing 1c. dull red, good regular margins, cancelled by Demerara c.d.s. Back flap slightly reduced, showing part double-arc Demerara and London arrival d.s. Entire cleaned and with other minor usual faults, still quite fresh and attractive. One of only four recorded covers bearing this stamp, three of which feature a strip of four, while this is the only known example with a single franking. Robson Lowe opinion (1973). S.G. 14, £2,500 (for a used off cover). Photo

provenance:
Burrus, November 1963, lot 79
Townsend, October 1969, lot 28
"Besançon", June 2021, lot 2275

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,500