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Great Britain 1882 £1 brown-lilac Plate 1, SG132 Gilbert & Ellice Islands stamps A hugely rare piece ofGreat Britain 1882 1 brown lilac Plate 1 (Blued Paper), SG132. An exceptionally fine used example lettered 'AA', neatly cancelled by a crisp Porchester Rd Bayswater circular date stamp for 'JU. 1. 1883'. A particularly fine example of this difficult high value Queen Victoria surface printed stamp. The rarity of this stamp is due to the high denomination which was only used in major cities at the time. The hobby of stamp collecting was only beginning