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1840: 1 d. grey-black, plate 2, lettered EB, a used example with good to large margins all round, from the worn plate, cancelled by BURFORD double arc cds in black '1841 / JU 11' contrary to regulations, also tied by red Maltese Cross probably in Oxford in transit. Exceptional and extremely rare: the sole example recorded from this village, fifteen miles west of Oxford Gi AS15.rnrnProvenance: Collection 'Minimus', Robson Lowe, 8-10 July 1980, lot 788.