cover 6p olive-yellow single and quadrisect (2, 2c; S.G.4, 4b), good margins, well-tied by St John "1" oval grid to Apr. 1860 cover to London; backstamped St. John AP 16 1860, showing faint red St. John N.B. AP 16 1860 d.s. and red Paid London 30 AP 60 d.s.; cover with two vertical filing creases; one of which crosses the single, the bisect has slight crease; the franking is a great rarity, 7½p rate to the United Kingdom, with 1967 P.F. certificate, S.G. Cat. £ 2,0000 | Christie's

Lot 70

cover 6p olive-yellow single and quadrisect (2, 2c; S.G.4, 4b), good margins, well-tied by St John "1" oval grid to Apr. 1860 cover to London; backstamped St. John AP 16 1860, showing faint red St. John N.B. AP 16 1860 d.s. and red Paid London 30 AP 60 d.s.; cover with two vertical filing creases; one of which crosses the single, the bisect has slight crease; the franking is a great rarity, 7½p rate to the United Kingdom, with 1967 P.F. certificate, S.G. Cat. £ 2,0000

Details

cover 6p olive-yellow single and quadrisect (2, 2c; S.G.4, 4b), good margins, well-tied by St John "1" oval grid to Apr. 1860 cover to London; backstamped St. John AP 16 1860, showing faint red St. John N.B. AP 16 1860 d.s. and red Paid London 30 AP 60 d.s.; cover with two vertical filing creases; one of which crosses the single, the bisect has slight crease; the franking is a great rarity, 7½p rate to the United Kingdom, with 1967 P.F. certificate, S.G. Cat. £ 2,0000

Provenance

Dale-Lichtenstein, 1968
Carnegie, 1981

Lot Essay

This rarity is greatly undercatalogued; the other example in private hands was in the Dale-Lichtenstein and "Foxbridge" collections and was included in the Christie's Zurich 1989 sale of the Weill Brothers' stock