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Auction: 26023 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of British Empire Part XXVII
Lot: 1101

(x) Mauritius
1848-59 Post Paid
Earliest Impressions
1d. orange-vermilion, earliest impression, horizontal pair [2-3] with margins just touching in a couple of places, good to large elsewhere, cancelled by two crisp strikes of '1' in concentric circles in blue; a very fine and rare multiple of the earliest printing. Brandon Certificate (2010). S.G. 3, £36,000+

provenance:
Ferrary
Rothschild
Isleham
"Adamastor", Davd Feldman, November 2017

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Estimate
£22,000 to £30,000