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Lot# 3565 - Auction 298-307

  • Lot# : 3565 Great Britain

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    1841: 1 d. red-brown on blued, Alphabet II, plate 146, lettered HB-HC / IB-IC, a used block of four with good to large margins all round and showing large portion of adjoining stamps at left, used on circa 1852 cover from London to Beverley, Yorkshire. Cover noted in manuascript at left "Ab(ove). 2 oz." and "4" (pence) due to pay - double the deficiency, the adhesives cancelled by extremely rare usage of circular "MORE / TO / PAY" handstamp in black. Certificate RPSL (1976).rnRemark: The Karl Louis card index records only one similar usage of the "MORE / TO / PAY" circular handstampas a cancellation on an entire.(1d+2d) Stanley Gibbons 4 May 1975, lot 395rnProvenence: Spink 10 Jun. 1998, lot 1420.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,600 CHF