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Auction: 25027 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 2311

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate 6
EJ, good margins, just touching at foot, tied by wonderfully clear distinctive Maltese Cross of Stonehaven in red to 1841 (8 Feb.) entire letter (side flaps cut) to Aberdeen, the reverse with Stonehaven boxed d.s. Fine and rare. B.P.A. and R.P.S. Certificates (1979, 1997).

provenance:
Shaida, February 1992
Brian Reeve, October 1993
Spink, January, 2019

literature:
Noted in "The Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross", Vol. II, Pg. 259

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Estimate
£1,500 to £1,800

Starting price
£800