1850 "Cottonreel" 4c. orange, used at Demerara on 25 April 1851, with initials "E.D.W." (E.D. Wight), CUT SQUARE, fresh colours, slightly thinned with a little hole, but fine appearance. On back with the shamrock handstamp of Philippe la Renotière de Ferrari. A MOST ATTRACTIVE AND WELL-KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THIS RARITY. Ex Ferrari and Burrus coll. Robson Lowe certificate (1963) (Image)

1850 "Cottonreel" 12c. blue, used at Demerara on 29 April 1851, with initials "E.D.W." (E.D. Wight), CUT SQUARE, fresh colours, very fine. AN EXCEPTIONAL STAMP, ONE OF THE FINEST RECORDED COPIES. Ex Louise Boyd Dale coll. Holcombe certificate (1992) (Image)

1852 4c. black on deep blue, Type II, used with Berbice c.d.s., with complete margins around, fresh colours, partially creased (top left) and surface rubbings (little thins), but still fine appearance. RPS certificate (1977). (Image)

1852 1c. black on magenta, used with Demerara c.d.s., with fresh colours, wide margins around, fine. Ex Lars Amundsen coll. RPS certificate (1962) (Image)

1856 4c. black on rose-carmine surface coloured paper (typeset) with manuscript signature "EDW", used and cancelled by the receiving Office cds. Code E.C. August (?) 185... in black. The cut square stamp with extremely large margins, a very faint thin at centre right (reverse) but no surface rubbings (which are usual on this issue). A MOST ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE OF THIS RARITY. Signed by Champion and E. Diena on back, Calves (1973) and Holcombe (1989) certificates. (T) (Image)

1856 4c. black on blue with manuscript signature "EDW", used on piece, tied with "B G/.../OC 23/1856" British Guiana c.d.s. The cut square stamp with wide/huge margins and fresh colours. Signed (on piece) by Ferrari (shamrock h/s) and H. Bloch (Expert Committee, New York), and with detailed certificate by W. Jakubek (1986). Provenance: Collection Philippe la Renotière de Ferrari, sold 1921, Caspary collection, sold 1957 to a Canadian, auctioned 1979 by Mohrmann, offered by Jakubek 1986, and became part of an European collection at last. BY FAR THE FINEST EXAMPLE (ONLY FEW KNOWN) OF THIS CLASSIC WORLD-RARITY. AN IMPOSING SHOWPIECE FROM THE FERRARI-COLLECTION. (M) (Image)

1856 (Aug) PAPER COLOURED THROUGH (deep blue on both sides), 4c black on deep blue, as usual cut octagonally. RPS Cert (2015) which states "the corners have been added" (and they could be cut away again). Ex Ferrary collection 1921. Townsend & Howe mention in their book the huge rarity of this stamp: "Mr H.R.Holmes made a study of the blue surfaced paper (SG 26) and dark blue sugar paper (SG 27 coloured through) shades over a long period and carefully recorded all the examples...of the dark blue on sugar bag paper (SG 27) ONLY NINE COPIES ARE KNOWN TO EXIST. Four are cut square and five have the corners clipped. Four of the nine were in the Ferrary collection. Of the blue surfaced paper (SG26) at least twenty could be traced." THIS IS ONE OF THE RAREST STAMPS IN THE WORLD AND IT IS UNKNOWN IN UNUSED CONDITION. The similar octagonally cut example of the Dupont collection (creasing, thin spot) sold in 2014 for 80.000 EUR. SG 27 £225,00 (Image)

1853/1966: Specialized collection of stamps and covers well written up on pages with several interesting details explained. This impressive collection includes many of the good 19th century issues as 1853 1c vermilion (Original printing, SG 11, E. Diena cert.), 1c dull red (C; SG 16), 4c deep blue (SG 18, BPA cert.), 4c pale blue (x2, SG 20, three cert. incl. RPS), and 4c blue (SG 21) all used, followed by the perforated issues including Sailing Ships with colour shades, perforations, papers, overprinted issues, a postal stationery card 1894 to Belgium (Holcombe opinion) and three covers, the 1862 square issues with 12 stamps (all types) including specials like 2c variety "TWC" (SG 120b, ex Burrus, Robson Lowe opinion) and two singles 4c blue (Types I and III), etc., the following issues from 1898 used (near to complete), plus two covers (insuff. franked covers from USA/GB) with 1940 postage due stamps. (A) (Image)