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Auction: 7039 - Great Britain Stamps and Covers - featuring "KM" Collection
Lot: 310

Great Britain Line-Engraved Issues 1840 One Penny Black Plate V DF, good to very large margins, on entire (side flaps trimmed) from West Bromwich to Sutton Coldfield dated 31 October 1840, tied by superb strike of the Maltese Cross in a distinctive brown-red shade, also 1841 entire used to Birmingham showing superb West Bromwich double-arc d.s. and oval framed "paid/one/penny" both in a similar brown-red shade; an extremely attractive and most unusual pair of covers. Photo for the first Estimate £ 500-600

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£520