Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

1 d. red-brown, plate 8, lettered EF, just touching to good margins, tied to lettersheet by superbly-struck Maltese Cross in unusual vermilion red shade, adjacent equally-crisp strike of Hayle despatch c.d.s. (11 September, 1841), to Redruth, an exceptionally-fresh and most attractive cover of great rarity. Cert. BPA (1979) and RPSL (2023) states "..red Maltese Cross.". Gi. AS51va = £24'000.
Reference: Listed in Jackson/Rockoff "Enyclopedia of the Maltese Cross", page 396.
Provenance: Robson Lowe Auction, 26 April 1979, lot 5.