Lot 18
  • 18

1936 ½d to 2½d, set of 4 in unique horizontal Registration blocks of 48 spanning the sheet

Estimate
100,000 - 120,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Stamps
with sheet dividing arrows either side, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £480,000+

Catalogue Note

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Each block with a typewritten Registration Certificate on the reverse; the ½d reading:

 

“This sheet of the ½d Unified Stamps, 240 sets, was taken in the presence of the P.O. Control Officer at the factory of Messrs. Harrison & Sons Ltd. at High Wycombe for the registration of the first print of King Edward VIII stamps of this denomination.

 

(Signed) D.P. Dell
Senior Staff Officer.
11th August, 1936.

 

(Initialled) WR
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”

 

The other values with the same Registration details, the dates as follows:

 

1d         ’24 August 1936’
1½d      ’19 August 1936’
2½d      ’17 August 1936’

 

PRINTED MARGINAL NUMBERS

 

½d        ‘110734’
1d         ‘53041’
1½d      (a trace only)
2½d      ‘19762’