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Lot# 4596 - Auction 265-273

  • Lot# : 4596 Great Britain

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    1848: Embossed 1 s. brown, Essay in the colour of the issued 10 d. value with smaller lettering, without the Pendant Curl added later, with complete frame, printed on Dickinson silk thread paper, a fine example with even larger margins than the SG catalogue illustration, two tiny thin spots of no great significance on this rare Essay, fresh and very fine with remnants of gum. Extremely rare and surely one of the finest of the 8 known examples. Cert. BPA (2020) Gi EP2(b) = £ 8'500.rnProvenance: Harmers, London, 1 March 1937, lot 149; RL, Bournemouth, 30-31 July 1975, lot 99.
    Starting bid : 1,800.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,400.00 CHF