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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions LLC
America's Oldest Philatelic Auction House
- Established 1885 -
and the only one with offices on three continents
(USA, London, Hong Kong)
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Sale 3002
Lot 9
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Bermuda, 1860, St. George's Postmaster's Stamp (Thies) (1d) carmine red on buff (Scott X4. SG O7), neatly canceled by clear and virtually complete "St. Georges/JA21/1863/Bermuda" handstamp in black. Of the four examples recorded on yellow paper, the other three are cancelled with a manuscript "X" in pen.
An exceptional and unique piece of Bermudian postal history., One of only four examples recorded—and the sole example cancelled with a datestamp, Provenance:
Bought by Ralph Woolmore in 1895(?) and sold to a continental collector in a 1937 H.R. Harmer Private Treaty sale. The stamp later passed to King Carol of Romania and was purchased by George Ulrich in 1976. Most recently offered in the George Ulrich Collection sale of 1989, the Robert W. Dickgiesser Collection sale of 1999.
Scott $100,000. SG £85,000 ($109,740).
Sold!
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
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The Oldest Philatelic Auction House in the United States, established in 1885.
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