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Lot# 3098 - Auction 250-256

  • Lot# : 3098 Great Britain

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    1870 (Oct 1): 1½ d. lake-red, plate 1, lettered TK-TL, an imperforate horizontal pair from the lower right corner of the sheet, printed on Dr. Perkins experimental blued paper, with full Plate Number '1' and part imprint '(care)ful not to remove the Cement'. Large margins all round, fresh and very fine, large part og. Superb and of great rarity, especially so in a multiple: the sole recorded corner Plate Number piece in private hands, the only other example (from lower left of sheet) is housed in the National Postal Museum (Vol XX1, page 25). Unique. Cert. RPSL (1981) Gi G6g = £ 19'000.rnrnProvenance: Stanley Gibbons, London, 26-27 March 1981, lot 445.rn                     Christie's, London, 10 March 1994, lot 4462.
    Starting bid : 7,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 8,500 CHF