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Auction: 24029 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5192

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate 2
SE, clear margins all round, TH, good to very large margins, tied by two superb strikes of the Stonehaven Maltese Cross to 1840 (25 Sept.) entire letter to Kirriemuir, the reverse with boxed Stonehaven d.s.; the adhesives have been lifted, SE pressed, and replaced, the entire cleaned, nevertheless fine and two superb examples of this rare cross. Brandon Certificate (2001). Specialised AS15b, uj, £18,000+

provenance:
Pichai, 15 March, 2001, Lot 197

literature:
Recorded by Rockoff and Jackson, Vol. 2, Page 259

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Estimate
£2,800 to £3,000