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Lot# 10169 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 10169 Great Britain

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    1d. black, plate 10, horizontal strip of six,lettered OA-OF, margins mostly ample to large, touching in places, tied to large part folded cover from Swansea to Cardiff by black Maltese Crosses, with Cardiff double-arc receiver (1 April, 1841) on front, OA and OD creased, other small flaws as expected with such a franking, rare, believed to be one of only three strips of six on cover extant from this plate of which this is by far the finest. Cert RPSL (2000). Gi. AS66.rnProvenance: Collection Seymour, Robson Lowe, 11 April, 1951, lot 285; Robson Lowe, 20 February, 1957, lot 139; Collection Ernest Hunt, Stanley Gibbons, 21-3 February, 1968; Collection "Daisy", Christies Robson Lowe, 8 October, 1996, lot 32; Collection Dr. Pichai Buranasombati, Shreves Philatelic Galleries, 15 March, 2001, lot 149.
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,600 CHF