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Auction: SW1015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series
Lot: 9

1845, 30r. black, greyish paper, intermediate impression, type II, block of six (2x3), showing spectacular re-entries in frame lines, just touched or cut slightly into at left, with ample margins in other respects, used on reverse of double weight undated cover carried by maritime mail to Bahia, which endorsed ''per Vapor'' and then amended to ''Pkt''. The upper four adhesives of the block were torn across on opening and subsequently repaired, of little significance for this, the largest recorded multiple of this denomination on cover. Cert. Moorhouse. RHM 5. Ex Hubbard.

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€4,000