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  • Lot# : 582 Great Britain

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    1841: 1 d. red brown blued paper, plate 17, block of six lettered LJ-LL/MJ-ML, with margins clear to superb all round, MJ showing the re-entry (Spec BS6a) used on 1842 cover from Northallerton to Manchester cancelled by neat black Maltese Crosses. Refolded slightly for Exhibit display with despatch cds in red (Jan 27) and arrival in black. An exceptional and attractive multiple of this rarer plate on letter, with 'no cover with a large franking from Plate 17 recorded' by the Karl Louis Card Index Register to date Gi = £ 975 for a block of four off cover. rnNote: Mess. Bagshaw & Stevenson were the solicitors of the then privately owned "Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway Company". The opening of the first section of line from Manchester to Godley was in 1841.rnrn 
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,600 CHF