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A TRUE WORLD RARITY

he fifteenth sale in the major ‘Lionheart’ Collection of Great Britain and British Empire auction series recently took place at Spink. The highlight of the sale was undoubtedly the 1861 Bermuda Postmaster’s Stamp, described as ‘a true world rarity’. The 1d carminered was on bluish horizontally laid paper, and featured a ‘crisp rich red strike’, cut square and not obliterated, ‘the faintest trace of a wrinkle mentioned strictly for accuracy’. The stamp of postmaster W.B. Perot

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