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used The selection of various private firms' underprints or overprints, on 1864-79 1d. plates except where indicated, comprising Borrowman, Phillipps (5), J. S. & Co. (4), J. Taylor & Sons (3), Holloway (1d. stars), Lowfield (1d. stars), Hugh Jones & Co., Smith & Lister, Harvey & Portaway, Beddoe Hulbert & Co., Brown Davis & Co., Rossell & Co., H.H. (pair of unused 2d. plate 14), A.S. Henry & Co. Manchester (3, also 3d. rose plate 5 pair, 6d. plates 6 and 8, 1/- green plate 4), W. Dawbarn & Co. (9), Fore Street Warehouse Coy. (16, also 1d. Venetian red), W.H. Smith (12, also 2d. plate 9), also purple handstruck underprint "WH/E&S/Ltd." on K.E.VII 1½d., 2d., 2½d., 6d. (2); condition a little mixed in places. A rare assembly