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Auction: 25012 - British Guiana Part II - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 2164

British Guiana
1856 Provisionals Type-set and printed on surface-coloured paper at the Official Gazette, Georgetown
One of the Most Difficult Stamps of British Guiana / A Worldwide Philatelic Rarity
4c. black on blue
4c. black on blue cut octagonally, small to good margins, initialled "E.D.W.", cancelled by coded d.s. for Oct. 16 1856. Some usual faults including creasing, thinning and surface rubbing, still an exhibition example for this rarity, of which only about twelve used examples are known. One of the rarest stamps of British Guiana and a great rarity of worldwide philately. S.G. 26, £150,000. Photo

provenance:
"Great", March 1970, lot 76
Sotheby's New York, October 1994

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Estimate
£5,000 to £7,000