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Lot 177

8 d. brown, outer frame line just touched at right, otherwise good to wide margins with part of adjoining stamp at bottom, together with somewhat cut-in 1 d. blue, tied by oval of bars to letter sheet, backstamped "GALLE STEAMER LETTER JA 19 1860" and "FORWARDED BY JOHN BLACK GALLE", to Glasgow with arrival mark of February 18; a fine and rare franking, certificate BPA (1989). Provenance: Admiral Harris (1953) Joseph Hackmey (2009)