CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 3

London Printing 1853 (July 1): 10 c. deep bright blue on yellowish paper, wmk. pos. 1, a fine unused example with clear margin at left and large on the other three sides, of good colour and small part slightly soiled og. but very rare thus - it should be noted that prominent collectors such as Albert Quast, Alfred H. Caspary possessed no unused examples. An exceptionally rare stamp unused. Signed A. Diena. Cert. Holcombe (1994) Gi. 2 = £ 425/Scott = $ 1'000.rnProvenance: Corinphila sale 90, Oct 1994, lot 6299; Joseph Hackmey collection illustrated in Edition d'Or Vol. XXVI, page 34 (2011).