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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2142

British Guiana
1856 Provisionals Type-set and printed on surface-coloured paper at the Official Gazette, Georgetown
4c. black on magenta or rose-carmine
4c. black and magenta, initialled "E.D.W.", cut square with large to very large margins all round, cancelled by light Demerara double-arc d.s. Some usual thins, surface disturbances, and restored at top, hardly detracting from the fine appearance. A desirable example of this rarity exhibiting a fresh original colour. Ferrary handstamp on the reverse. S.G. 24, £25,000. Photo

provenance:
Ferrary sale II, October 1921, lot 237
Burrus, November 1966, lot 84

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Estimate
£2,000 to £3,000