AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS
WORLD FAMOUS BRITISH GUIANA COVER
he world famous ‘Burrus’ cover, as featured in the January 2021 issue of , was one of many rare British Guiana items offered at recently, as the ‘Imperium’ Collection was sold. Described as ‘one of the world’s greatest and outstanding philatelic icons and one of the most famous of British Empire errors,’ the 1850 entire features a 12 cents black on pale, showing the famous setting error ‘1’ of ‘12’ omitted, with initials of the postal clerk Wight ‘EDW’. Sent from
