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Auction: SW1009A - The Collector's Series
Lot: 4

1891, March 28. Cover front to Birmingham, carried at the recently introduced 2 1/2d. rate to United Kingdom and Colonies, with 1891 1/2d. on half of 1d. brownish claret, two unsevered pairs originating from the right of the sheet and top sheet-margin single example, tied by clean cork cancels, with matching "Falkland/Islands" dispatch c.d.s. at bottom left. Minor toning not detracting. This item was used to illustrate the 1991 26p. "Bisect" conmemorative stamp of the Falkland Islands (S.G. 640), thus possessing an added degree of fascination for this very rare and most desirable commercial franking. Cert. BPA. S.G. 13, 13a.

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