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Auction: 6010 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World - Washington Philatelic Exhibition Auction
Lot: 44

x BRITISH GUIANA 1850-51 "COTTONREELS" 2c. rose vertical pair, type C on medium wove paper, initialled "E.T.E.D.", partially cut round showing portions of outer frameline, clearly tied by two strikes of Demerara double-arc datestamp on 1851 (5 Aug.) entire letter addressed to "Miss Rose, Blankenburg" Estimate US$ 400,000-450,000Note: This is the earliest known cover of the three recorded and bears the only known examples of type C, the other eight (two pairs and four singles) being type B. This is the only cover where the cancellations tie the stamps to the outer letter sheet. provenance for L.N. Williams numberss VII and VIII: 1896 Miss Rose presented the letter to Christ Church, Demerara 1896 E.C. Luard bought the letter for $1005 (£205) 1896 Stanley Gibbons Ltd. bought the letter for £600 1896 H.J. Duveen bought the letter for £650 1922 Arthur Hind bought the letter through Charles Phillips for about $5000 1934 May 7th Auction H.R. Harmer, Hind sale 2 - £1300 ($5,656) and bought by Theodore Champion for his own collection 1960 (?) Acquired by Mrs. John Denny Dale 1969 February 17th Auction H.R. Harmer Inc., Dale/Lichtenstein sale 3, lot 410 - $34,000 (Stanley Gibbons) 1970 (?) Claude Cartier bought the letter 1977 April 21st Auction, Classics from the Claude Cartier sale (Stanley Gibbons), lot 23 - £70,000 ($168,000 approx.) 1990 May 11th Auction Stanley Gibbons sale 5686, lot 17 - £161,000 ($318,000 approx.) 1996 November 28th - December 2nd ANPHILEX ´96 New York display as Aristocrat of Philately No. 8 on loan from an anonymous collector

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