used 1856 4c. black on magenta initialled "E.D.W.", a magnificent vertical pair cut square with large margins all round, cancelled by "DEMERARA/FE 22/1856" double-arc d.s. (the earliest recorded date for this issue); negligible ironed-out vertical crease and slightly coloured in one place. A great rarity, only three pairs believed to exist of which this is the finest. R.P.S. (1958) and Holcombe (1992) Certificates

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used 1856 4c. black on magenta initialled "E.D.W.", a magnificent vertical pair cut square with large margins all round, cancelled by "DEMERARA/FE 22/1856" double-arc d.s. (the earliest recorded date for this issue); negligible ironed-out vertical crease and slightly coloured in one place. A great rarity, only three pairs believed to exist of which this is the finest. R.P.S. (1958) and Holcombe (1992) Certificates
Provenance
P. von Ferrary, 1921
Alfred H. Caspary, 1957
Lars Amundsen, 1967

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