Auction 321 - 332 Europe & Overseas Great Britain & British Commonwealth - Day 3

O.W. Official 1902 (April 27): 2 d. yellow-green & carmine-red, a single example used on 1903 OHMS registered cover to Burnley, tied by oval datestamp in black (Oct 7) with "Official Paid" cds and oval "Registered / S.W.D.O." datestamp of the same day adjacent. Oval "R" at left and "Preston" oval datestamp (Oct 8) and repeated strikes on reverse. A fine and very rare cover Gi MO16 = £ 2'750.rnRemark: A pendant O.H.M.S. cover from the same correspondance to Burnley was in the R.A.G. Lee collection, Stanley Gibbons 5 Oct. 1978, lot 290.