1937-47 1d scarlet Watermark Sideways, unique vertical marginal Registration block of 50 spanning the sheet

marginal arrows at the top and foot, Cylinder B16 no dot placed sideways at the top, pencilled ‘for Registration 8/2/38 JWH’ in the lower margin, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £150,000+

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Typewritten Registration Certificate on the reverse reading:

 

“This sheet of 1d. Unified Stamps 100 set 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 in this denomination for Sideways Rolls.

 

(Signed) D.P. Dell
Senior Staff Officer.
8th February, 1938.

 

(Initialled) JWH
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”

 

Mr Dell splashed some ink while signing