Auction 333-341 Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan & Worldwide Postal History - Day 4

Trinidad 1847 (April 16): Lady MacLeod (5 c.) blue, a used example with large even margins all round, used on 18 March 1848 entire letter from San Fernando to William Graham in Port of Spain, cancelled by manuscript pen cross in brownish ink where one stroke of the pen's nib has grazed the surface of the adhesive; typical file folds away from the adhesive, otherwise a delightfully appearing example on a fine entire. Illustrated in "Trinidad, a Philatelic History" by Sir John Marriott on page 292. Signed Calves Gi = £ 12'000 off cover.
Provenance: Collection Julius Steindler, Robson Lowe, Basel, 14 March 1972, lot 601; Robson Lowe, London, 16 Jan 1973, lot 385; Robson Lowe, London, 1 May 1973, lot 342; Robson Lowe, Basel, 21 March 1974, lot 792; Hapsburg Feldman, Zurich, 4-9 Dec 1988, lot 30963; Robson Lowe, Zurich, 13 June 1990, lot 540; Cherrystone, New York, 19-20 Aug 1992, lot 1479; Filasta, Verona, Nov 1992, lot 1110.