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Lot 108
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1941-42 2d pale orange, unique horizontal marginal tête-bêche Registration block of 48 spanning the sheet with 11.5mm vertical gutter margin between two tête-bêche blocks of 24

Estimate
50,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Stamps
full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £240,000+

Catalogue Note

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Typewritten Registration Certificate on the reverse reading:

 

“This sheet of the 2d Unified stamps, 240 set, was taken in the presence of the Post Office Control Officer at the Factory of Messrs. Harrison & Sons, Ltd., at High Wycombe for the registration of the first print of this denomination with light background for Stamp Books.

 

(Signed) D.P. Dell
Senior Staff Officer.
(28th January) 1942.

 

(Initialled) JWH
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”