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Auction: 8030 - Important Great Britain, British Empire & Foreign Stamps & Covers, including items from the Royal Philatelic Collection
Lot: 115

Victoria 1856 (Oct.) watermark Large Star, imperf Queen on Throne 1d. yellow-green neatly cancelled by two part strikes of "cancelled" obliterator, small even margins, fine. Unrecorded by Peter Jaffé and one of five known, being from position 2 in the horizontal block of six. S.G. 40 Estimate £ 12,000-15,000 Note: In August 1861 the printers, Perkins, Bacon & Co., provided six examples of each stamp in their possession to Ormond Hill (eldest son of Sir Rowland Hill) for members of the family. These fascinating stamps and the story behind their appearance, have been fully described by Peter Jaffé in his book "Cancelled".

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