1843 (23 May).
1d Red-brown on blued paper. Plate 29. "GREEN" MALTESE CROSS.
Clean, neat cover from Moate to Dublin, bearing 1d. Red-brown on blued paper with good to huge margins, cancelled with a superb strike of a GREEN MALTESE CROSS. 'MOATE MY 23 1843' (dispatch) datestamp on the reverse in the same olive-green colour and also a red Dublin (receiving) datestamp.
David Brandon Certificate.
(S.G. Spec.B1sd).
Reference; 'The Maltese Cross Cancellations of Great Britain and Ireland (2008)' by Professor S. David Rockoff and Mike Jackson - Page 204.
Exceedingly Rare and Outstanding.
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