Lot 110
  • 110

1941-42 ½d pale green Watermark Upright, unique horizontal marginal Registration block of 36 spanning the sheet

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Stamps
part of punched holes in both margins, part of pencilled endorsement ‘(88) 26/3/42 JWH’, some marginal wrinkling, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £90,000+

Catalogue Note

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Typewritten Registration Certificate on the reverse reading:

 

“This sheet of ½d Unified Stamps, 120 set, was taken in the presence of the Post Office Control Officer at the Factory of Messrs. Harrison and Sons, Ltd., at High Wycombe, for the registration of the first print of this denomination with Light background for endways rolls.

 

(Signed) D.P. Dell
Senior Staff Officer.
(26th March) 1942.

 

(Initialled) JHW
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”