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Lot 136
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1950-52 ½d 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
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Description

  • Stamps
printed margin number ‘06969’ in the gutter margin, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £240,000+

Catalogue Note

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Printed Registration Certificate on the reverse with manuscript entries reading:

 

“THIS sheet (240 set) Unified ½d for Books WAS TAKEN IN THE PRESENCE OF THE POST OFFICE CONTROL OFFICER AT THE FACTORY OF Messrs Harrison and Sons Ltd AT High Wycombe, Bucks. FOR REGISTRATION OF THE FIRST PRINTING OF this denomination in Orange.

 

(Signed) E Carr
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
20th February 1951

 

(Initialled) HWP
INITIALS OF CONTROL OFFICER
SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT
STAMP DEPOT”