Item no. 600

1840 1d black plate 1a (DD).  Very fine used tied to undated addressed piece by very fine red cross.  Grey-black (worn plate), SG3.  

Price: £180.00

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Item no. 606

  1840 1d black plate 2 (KA).  Fine example with complete, crisp red cross.  Attractive example.  SG2.  

Price:  £190.00

Item no. 608

1840 1d black plate 4 (SI).  Very fine used, intense shade and red cross. 

Price: £170.00

Item no. 612

1840 1d black plate 6 (BB).  Very fine used, part of other stamp in bottom margin with very fine red cross lightly applied. SG2.              

Price:  £185.00

Item no. 613

1840 1d black plate 6 (AF).  Very fine large square margined example with black cross.  Plate wear at top.  

Price:  £185.00

Item no. 618

1840 1d black plate 8 (AJ).  Fine used, crisp black cross, THIN paper variety spec AS46 e.  

Price:  £120.00 

Item no. 619

1840 1d black plate 8 (SF).  Attractive example, nibbled in to at centre top but good to large margins elsewhere. Partial black cross top right leaves the Queen’s head virtually completely clear and rare thus.  

Price:  £90.00

Item no. 621

1840 1d black plate 10 (TG).  Fine copy from this very scarce plate, margins cut  close at top but clear to very close to possibly touching at left. Very fine, upright and almost complete black cross.  Characteristic letter short stumpy ‘T’ of this plate and printed in the scarcer grey-black shade showing plate wear.  Catalogued at a minimum of £500.   SG3.   

Price:  £155.00

Item no.1014. 

1840 1d black plate XI: fine 3+ margined example ‘PL’, large margins on three sides and in to part way along the bottom margin.  Black cross clear of NE ray flaw and the distinctive weak looped letter ‘P’, illustrated on page 91 of the QV Specialised Catalogue, characteristic of this rarest of plates and catalogued at £4,000. A very collectable example of this rarity. 

Price; £585.00