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1840 1d black plate 4, ‘FH’
Very fine good/large margins three sides
and clear to possibly just touching at top right tied by red cross to very clean
small neat un-creased entire from Mansfield to Liverpool. Letter dated inside
Mansfield
May 23 1840 and on the back of the entire is a
Mansfield
date stamp in the same ink as the cross for SUNDAY MAY 24 1840 – SG spec A1ti
– catalogued a minimum of £7,500 for the third Sunday in May 1840.
The earliest
date of use for Plate 4 is Saturday May 23 1840 – this only known such usage
is on an envelope used locally in
London
. The envelope is age stained as is
the stamp which has the NE corner clipped off. This item was sold in the Dr
Pichai Buranasombati 2001 sale for £5,500 including the buyers’ premium.
The item
offered here is the ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE of plate 4 used on the next day ie SUNDAY
May 24 1840. An exceptional item in
superb condition.
Price:
£5,000.00
SOLD
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1840
1d black plate 2, SI, Manchester fishtail cross.
Very
fine 4-margined tied to wrapper to Knighton, North Wales by a fine strike
of this distinctive cross, spec A1ub, catalogued at £2500.00 Plate 2
is scarcer with a black cross, specAS15m. Manchester cds on
reverse for March 6th 1841 – this is a very early usage of this cross,
and is the earliest recorded on plate 2, as the earliest known is March
3rd 1841 on a 1d black plate 8. Remarkable, and probably unique
combination of features.
Price:
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1d Black Plate 3 Entire used
Sunday May 31 1840 Bristol Vermilion Cross
Very fine 4-margined copy tied to clean
uncreased entire from Bristol to Baltonsborough, Nr Glastonbury, by a very
fine strike of the Vermilion maltese cross of Bristol, spec A1vh, in the
same shade of ink as the superb Bristol date stamp for Sunday May 31st
1840 on the reverse. The 1d black is printed in the scarcer Intense Black
shade Spec AS19A characteristic of the early printings from plate 3. The 31st
May 1840 date, Spec A1tk, is catalogued in the latest GB Volume 1
Specialised Edition at £7,500. Allowing for this example being from the
more difficult plate 3 and with a Vermilion cross of Bristol, this item has
an Estimated Catalogue Value well in excess of £10,000. We are not aware of any
other example extant with the above combination of plate, Bristol coloured
maltese cross and a May 1840 Sunday date.
Price:
£4,750.00
SOLD
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1d Black Blue
Cross
1840 SG2 1d black
plate 6: 4-margined copy, heavily defective, struck by a complete and
almost upright BLUE cross. A very rare stamp, despite the faults, with
PEGB Certificate and catalogued at £9,500.
Price
£885.00 |
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1d Black Plate 7 Liverpool Orange
Cross on Entire
Very fine 4-margined copy from Plate 7 with
portions of FIVE other stamps in the margins. Tied to entire to Ballymoney
by the Orange maltese cross of Liverpool, Spec A1vg. On the reverse is a
Liverpool date stamp in the same orange shade as the cross for August 15
1840. Also on reverse a Dublin date stamp for SUNDAY August 16 1840. SG Cat
£1,000+ in this plate.
An
exceptional item.
Price:
£695.00
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1d Black Superb
Copy from Plate 1b
An
exceptional example, CL, with the non-coincident re-entry, Spec AS5b. Very
large to enormous margins all round and tied to a small piece by forged
magenta maltese crosses. With a 1995 PEGB Cert. An unusual and attractive
stamp.
Price:
£225.00
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1840 2d Blue SG5 TG plate 1
Full margined with a superb upright and complete
GREENOCK
cross, spec D1va, with a clear RPS Certificate. A rare stamp and
catalogued at £1,800.
Price:
£890.00 |
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1848 1d red
3-margined ‘OH’
plate 80 cancelled indistinct
RED
numeral, SG spec BS29xd and with PEGB Certificate.
A rarity and catalogued from £7,500.
Price: £935.00 |
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1843 1d red plate
24
Very fine 4-margined, on wrapper from
Coventry
to
London
tied by an equally fine Coventry
distinctive cross, SG spec BS10te, June 28 1843.
Interestingly the cross appears to be showing signs of wear.
Catalogued at £1,600.
Price:
£1200.00 |


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SG8 1d Red Plate
75
LK, a 3+ margined copy of the famous Union Jack
re-entry, SG spec BS28c, tied to wrapper from Leeds to London by Leeds 447, cancel leaves
almost all of re-entry visible. Cat £2700 off cover.
Price:
£970.00 |

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Plate 77b B Blank
Corrected
A used copy of this rare stamp with the ‘92’
numeral cancellation of Bolton, Lancs. Not a 4-margined copy but the cancel
leaves the letter squares clear. Clear 1991 RPS certificate. Spec BS29b
and catalogued at £1500.
Price: £535.00
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1850 2d blue plate 3, SG14, pair ‘DK-DL’, DL 4-margined and DK
3-margined, scissor cut between not touching the designs, both stamps with
faults. However, each stamp has been
cancelled only by strikes of the Liverpool transit mark, (Robertson type 64/65),
used on the outside of maritime mail going through
Liverpool
. The date is August 31 and the only
sailing in the period 1840-1860 on that date was on August 31 1850 when the
Cunard packet ‘Asia’ sailed from Liverpool to New York/Boston.
From our researches we can find no other such example of this type of
transit mark being used alone as a cancellation on either the 1d red imperf or
2d blue. An exceptionally rare and
probably unique item from the line-engraved period.
Price: £550.00
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2d SG 13-15,
pl 4, RECONSTRUCTED SHEET of 240
stamps,
approaching 70% are 4-margined copies. Remarkable and rare with additional
blocks, multiples, varieties, papers and covers. Cat value well in excess of
£30,000. Great basis for development and with huge potential. More details and
scans on request.
Price:
£7500.00 |
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1d SG21 Mis-Perforated Vertical
Mint Block of 6
Very fine mint block in a rich shade with
such extreme mis-perfing that each copy has portions of 4 stamps. The piece
also shows the sheet to have been twisted before or when being printed.
Misalignment of the stamps also in evidence. A rare combination of
features with a basic block of four cataloguing at £2,400.
Price: £1250.00
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