1937-47 ½d green Watermark Sideways, unique vertical marginal Registration block of 40 spanning the sheet

marginal arrows at the top and foot, printed number ‘201274’ at the top and pencilled ‘Cyl A13. JWH’, graduated marginal rule at the foot, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £120,000+

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Typewritten Registration Certificate on the reverse reading:

 

“This sheet of ½d. Unified Stamps, 100 set, was taken in the presence of the Post Office Control Officer at the factory of Messrs. Harrison & Sons at High Wycombe for the registration of the first print of this denomination of King George VI stamps for Sideways Rolls.

 

(Signed) D.P. Dell
Senior Staff Officer
6^th May, 1938.

 

(Initialled) JWH
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”