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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2148

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 good margins, cancelled by coded "A 3 C" d.s. for June 11 1856, affixed on small piece. Some usual surface disturbances, thins, a vertical crease and colour partially faded, still an acceptable example of this rarity. S.G. 24, £25,000. Photo

provenance:
Shreves, December 2001

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,500