Lot 188
1882 £5 Orange Pl.1 (White paper) Cancelled red hooded datestamps

The J. W. Phillips Collection of Great Britain | 5949
Auction: 18 July 2023 at 16:50 BST
£6,960
Description
1882 £5 Orange Pl.1 (White paper). Used example lettered AF, cancelled by a multiple strikes of a bright red London Registered hooded circle for AP.23.1897. Pictured in “The £5 Orange, Dr John Horsey”, believed to be unique cancelled by a red cancellation and also the only recorded example with a hooded circle datestamp. Rare and unusual. SG137.

