Feature Lot.
Lot 2547 -
British Guiana,1850-51, THE FREDERICK T. SMALL 12 CENTS PALE BLUE COVER, 12 cents black on pale blue, Townsend Type D, with initials of postal clerk Wight EDW, cut square with margins ranging from just touched to large, used on entire letter from the Duff correspondence, with neatly strike of DEMERARA datestamp on 23 June 1851, arrival cds of Berbice on reverse, one of only two covers recorded in private hands bearing this stamp, both being very similar, the archive fold passing through the stam....Estimate € 200000
Sold for EUR 56,000
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