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CANADA 1851 Twelve Pence Black on Laid Paper
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12d black on laid paper, rich colour, sharp impression and bright fresh appearance, large margins on the horizontal sides with the vertical sides lacking just the outer framelines or with the design just touched, neatly cancelled with a large part strike of a target cancellation. A very collectable example of this legendary classic rarity. S.G. 4, £85,000
£15,000-20,000
Note: This stamp was originally in the famous Dale Lichtenstein collection. When offered in this remarkable series of auctions the stamp was the right-hand stamp of a horizontal pair, from which it has subsequently been severed PROVENANCE: Dale Lichtenstein, Sale 2, November 1968
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1857 medium to thick wove machine-made paper, 1⁄ 2d. deep rose, two fresh unused examples with large part original gum, one with good to large margins all round, trace of oxidisation and faint corner crease at top, the other with three good to extremely large margins showing trace of adjoining stamp frameline at left, the outer frameline shaved at top. Also two other stamps. S.G. 17, £1,700
£400-500
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