1937-47 ½d green With Jubilee Lines, unique horizontal tête-bêche Registration block of 48 spanning the sheet

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

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Description

Stamps

printed marginal number ‘05560’, light crease affecting one stamp. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £312,000+

Catalogue Note

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

Typewritten Registration Certificate on the reverse reading:

“This sheet of ½d. Unified Stamps, 240 set, for Books, 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 the King George VI stamps of this denomination with Jubilee line.

(Signed) D.P. Dell
Senior Staff Officer
15.12. 37.

(Initialled) JWH
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”