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Auction: 6010 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World - Washington Philatelic Exhibition Auction
Lot: 45

x BRITISH GUIANA 1850-51 "COTTONREELS" 4c. orange, type B on medium wove paper, initialled "E.D.W.", cut round showing portions of outer frameline, clearly cancelled by Demerara double-arc datestamp for May 13th 1851 and just tied to entire (one side flap missing) addressed to Mahaica, fine. Sc. 2; S.G. 2 Estimate US$ 40,000-50,000Note: Mahaica along the East Coast is at the limit of the 4c. value for postage. The signature on the stamp seems quite similar to the notation at the lower left, namely "pr Inland Mail, 13 May", and was probably placed there by the Postmaster, E.D. Wight. provenance: Derek Nathan

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$40,000