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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2144

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.T.E.D." - corresponding to postal clerk Dalton, cut square with regular margins, cancelled by light Demerara double-arc d.s. Some usual surface disturbances, creases and thins, still of very fine appearance, a desirable example of this stamp, of which only seven examples are recorded with these initials. Schlessinger handstamp, signed Gilbert and Wise, Gilbert certificate (1941). S.G. 24, £25,000. Photo

provenance:
Siegel, March 1999

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,500