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Lot# 10160 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 10160 Great Britain

    1d. red-brown, plate 9, block of four, lettered PG-QH, good to large margins, touching at left of QG, unused, large part original gum, beautiful rich colour, creases and slight thins including small paper fault in "N" of PENNY on PH yet a rare multiple from the "Dublin Find".  Gi.AS59 = £25,000.rnrnLiterature:rnIllustrated in "The Dublin Find", Don Madden and Karl Louis, page 35.rnrnProvenance:rn"The Dublin Find", Plumridge & Co, 2 March, 1904.rnStanley Gibbons, 7-9 June, 1972, lot 635.
    Starting bid : 1,200 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,400 CHF