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Lot# 10215 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 10215 Great Britain

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    2d. blue, plate 1, lettered RJ, good to large margins on three sides, touched at left, deep shade, cancelled with very fine large part strike of the distinctive Whitehaven Maltese Cross in black, the sole example on this issue recorded by Rockoff and Jackson, and in the Karl Louis Card Index, extremely rare and ideal for exhibition. Cert RPSL (2008). Gi. DS5.rnProvenance: Stanley Gibbons auction, 7-8 November 1974, lot 674; Robson Lowe, 27-28 February 1979, lot 506.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,600 CHF