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Auction: 25017 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5324

Great Britain
1840 Two Pence Blue
Plate 1
GA-GB horizontal pair in appealing light shade, good to large margins all round, well tied by two lightly struck ruby Maltese Crosses of Aberdeen to 1840 (19 Aug.) entire letter to Dundee, the reverse with two Aberdeen d.s. B.P.A. Certificate (1975). Fine and very rare, Rockoff and Jackson records eight covers bearing 2d. blue, only two of which bearing a pair; one other example exists with two singles. Spec. D1uf, £24,000. Photo.

literature:
Recorded in "The Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross", Vol. 3, Pg. 406

provenance:
Stanley Gibbons, Nov. 1973, Lot 328
Sotheby's Dec. 1989, Lot 33
Spink June, 1998, Lot 1392

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Estimate
£2,000 to £3,000