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Auction: 26023 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of British Empire Part XXVII
Lot: 1036

(x) Cape of Good Hope
1855-63
1/- bright yellow-green, sheet margin at left and good to large margins elsewhere, wonderfully fresh and fine appearance and with large part original gum; a superb, possibly the finest, single example of this rare stamp known and with pedigree to match. B.P.A. Certificate (1990). S.G. 8, £3,750

provenance:
Dale Lichtenstein, November 1989
Vestey, 2010
"Besancon", June 2019
Richard Debney, 2025

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000