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Auction: 25027 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 2389

Great Britain
1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown "Black" Plates
Plate 8
TC, good to large margins, just touched at foot, tied by red Maltese Cross of Ardrossan to 1841 (11 May) entire letter to Hamilton, the reverse with boxed Ardrossan d.s. in matching ink and black Hamilton arrival d.s. for the following day. Attractive and very rare, being the earliest of four recorded examples from Ardrossan; R.P.S. Certificate (1991). Spec. A2va, £24,000

Notes: Gibbons note that the best examples of the red Maltese Cross on 1d. red-brown originate from Ardrossan, Hayle, Billericay and Rugeley, of which Ardrossan is among the rarest.

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, Nov. 1988 and June 1989

literature:
Noted in "The Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross", Rockoff and Jackson, Vol. 3, Pg. 394

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000

Starting price
£2400