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lot # 4535 - europe Great Britain
1841 (March): 2 d. deep full blue, pl. 3, Imprimatur, lettered TI, imperforate with good margins all round, unfinished at base with speckling on TWO PENCE, superb and extremely rare with just 22 examples removed from the sheet, the base of the stamp with tiny manuscript ink marking is part of the notation made by the engraver which is still in the Post Office records. Beautiful, exceptional and very rare Gi ES12 Imprimatur = £ 12`000.rnProvenance: RL, London, 27 April 1949, lot 55; Harmers, London, 27-28 Feb 1967, lot 125; Collection Harold Fisher, Phillips, London, 22-23 Sept 1983, lot 245; Collection Folkard, Phillips, London, 26 Nov 1998, lot 260.
Catalogue 286: Great Britain 1840–1910 – The ‘BESANÇON’ Collection (part IV)
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