Initialed EDW, cut octagonally clear of design, April 4 1856 DEMERARA circular datestamp.

29 x 26 mm

EXPERTIZATION:

• Royal Philatelic Society, London certificates:
• Number 18796, October 17th 1935 signed Thomas William Hall
• Number 217796, March 17th 2014 signed Christopher Harman

PROVENANCE:

• Andrew Hunter (1856-1873, original recipient of the mailed stamp);
• Louis Vernon Vaughan (1873);
• Neil Ross McKinnon (1873-1878);
• Thomas Ridpath (1878);
• Philipp de la Rénotiére Von Ferrary (1878-1920, purple trefoil on reverse);
• Government of France (1920-1922);
• Arthur M. Hind (1922-1932, cloverleaf "AH" within seventeen-point handstamp on reverse);
• Ann Hind Scala (1932-1940);
• Frederick Trouton Small (1940-1970, comet handstamp on reverse; also initialed in pencil "FK" by his agent Finbar Kenny);
• Irwin Weinberg and Associates (1970-1980, pencil "IW" on reverse);
• John Eluthiere Du Pont (1980-2014, pencil "JEdP" on reverse);
• Stuart Weitzman (2014-2021, pencil drawn stiletto and initialed SW on reverse).

• 1923 London International Stamp Exhibition May 14-28
• 1926 New York International Stamp Exhibition October 16-23
• 1929 Le Havre, France, Exposition Philatélique Internationale May 18-26
• 1930 Boston, American Philatelic Society National Exhibition August 11-16
• 1940 New York World's Fair, British Pavilion May
• 1947 New York Centenary International Philatelic Exhibition May 17-25
• 1956 New York Fifth International Philatelic Exhibition April 28-May 6
• 1963 Melbourne International Philatelic Exhibition October 6-12
• 1965 London Stanley Gibbons Catalogue Centenary February 17-20
• 1970-1980 Irwin Weinberg toured the stamp extensively including trips to England, Japan, Switzerland, France, India, Czechoslovakia, Germany, SPain, and Canada
• 1986 Chicago Ameripex International Stamp Exhibition May 22-June 1 (Part of the British Guiana exhibit by "Rae Mader," which won the Grand Prix)
• 1987 Perth, Australia, CUP-PEX National Philatelic Exhibition January 31-February 8
• 2016 New York World Stamp Show May 28-June 4
• 2015-2020 Washington DC, Smithsonian National Postal Museum

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Est. $10,000,000-15,000,000