1850-51, 12 cents black on blue, Townsend Type A, thick frame, without initials, cut round with the circular borders of the stamp being visible all around, small stain spot at top mentioned for full accuracy, in an uncommonly deep bright colour; (unpriced in SG), the only one example recorded in the Cotton-Reel primitives WITHOUT initials, that means realy unused, two others missing cancellation but have initials, one sold in the Hind sale in 1935, the other belonging to the J. Simon Greenwood collection, one of the unused key values of the British Empire, ex Philipp von Ferrary (Lot 195, Sale II, Oct, 1921) and John E. du Pont (Lot 60009, David Feldman SA, June 2014, sold for 179,000 Euro incuding all taxes), sign Roger Calves, cert BPA 2014, VF-XF! Estimate 300.000€.
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