Corinphila Auction 291-297 Day 2

1840: 1 d. black, plate 1a, lettered TL, with thick base line and showing filled 'O' of POSTAGE at top, a used example with good to huge margins all round, tied to small piece by neat complete strike of Maltese Cross in red with further strike of the Maltese Cross adjacent, a practice found at Spilsby, Lincolnshire. Superb Gi AS2a = £ 425.rnProvenance: Spink, London, 11 June 1997, lot 62.