The British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta

The Unique British Guiana 1856 One-Cent Black on Magenta Surface-Colored Paper (Stanley Gibbons no.23, Scott🍌 no.13)

Initialled EDW, cut octag🎐onally clear of design, April 4 1856 DEMERARA circular datestamp.

29 x 26 mm 

EXPERTIZATION:

Royal Philatelic Society, London certificates:

Number 18796, October 17th 1935 🦂signed Thom𒐪as William Hall

Number 217796, March 17th 2014 si🤡gned Christopher Har👍man

The 2014 certificate contains the observation “surface rubbing reduced by over-painting at some time in the past – possibly while the stamp resided in the Ferrari co🌺llection”.🐽 It should be noted that the expert committee did not have the benefit of spectrographic analysis when arriving at this opinion.

PROVENANCE:

Andrew Hunter (1856-1873, original recipient 💃of the mailed stamp);

Louis Vernon Vaughan (1873);

Neil Ross McKinnon (1873-1878);

Thomas Ridpath (1878);

Philipp de la Rénotière Von Ferrary (1878-1920, purpl🌼e trefoil on reverse);

Government of France (1920-1922);

Arthur M. Hind 𓆉(1922-1932, cloverleaf “AH” within seventeen-point handstamp on reverse);

Ann Hind Scala (1932-1940);

Frꦉederick Trou🐓ton Small (1940-1970, comet handstamp on reverse; also initialed in pencil “FK” by his agent Finbar Kenny);

Irwin Weinberg and Associates (1ꦡ970-1980, pencil “IW” on 🔴reverse);

John Elut♏hiere Du Pont ♛(1980-2014, pencil “JEdP” on reverse);

Stuart Weitzman (2014-2021, pencil drawn stiletto and𓆏 initialed SW on reverse).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

1923 London International Stamp Exhibition Ma💎y 14–28

1926 New Yor꧂k International Stamp Exhibition October 16–23

1929 Le ♛Havre, France, Exposi🌳tion Philatélique Internationale May 18–26

1930 Boston☂, American Philatelic Society ꧃National Exhibition August 11–16

1940 New York World’s Fair, British Pavilion May

1947 New York ဣCentenary International Philatelic Exhibition May 1ღ7–25

1956 Ne♛w York 🦂Fifth International Philatelic Exhibition April 28–May 6

1963 Melbourne International Philatelic Exhib😼ition Octobe🐎r 6–12

1965 London Stanley 🧸Gibbons Catalogue Centenary February 17–20

1970–1980 Irwin Weinberg toured the stamp extensively including trips to England, Japan, Switzerland🌜, France, India, Czechoslovakia, Germanyღ, SPain, and Canada

1986 Chicago Ameri🌃pex International Stamp Exhibition May 22–June 1 (Part of the British Guiana exhibit by “Rae Mader," which won the Gra💟nd Prix)

1987 Perth, Australia, CUP-PEX N꧋ational Philatelic Exhibition January 31–February 8

2016 New York World Stamp Show May 28-June 4

2015-2020 Washington DC, Smithsonian National Post🍌al Museum