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1950-52 2d pale red-brown Watermark Sideway, unique vertical marginal Registration block of 50 spanning the sheet
Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Stamps
marginal arrows both ends, pencilled ‘(Se)lected for Registration HWP D16’, some mainly marginal wrinkling, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £125,000+
Catalogue Note
REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE
Printed Registration Certificate on the reverse with manuscript entries reading:
“THIS sheet (100 set) of Unified 2d Sideways WAS TAKEN IN THE PRESENCE OF THE POST OFFICE CONTROL OFFICER AT THE FACTORY OF Messrs. Harrison & Sons Ltd. AT High Wycombe, Bucks. FOR REGISTRATION OF THE FIRST PRINT OF this denomination in Brown.
(Signed) E. Carr
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
16th February 1951
(Initialled) HWP
INITIALS OF THE CONTROL OFFICER
SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT
STAMP DEPOT”