1937-47 2d orange Watermark Sideways, unique vertical marginal Registration block of 50 spanning the sheet

marginal arrows and punched holes at the top and foot, printed number ‘55(?)23’, the central digit punched through, pencilled ‘Taken for Registration’, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £112,500+

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Typewritten Registration Certificate on the reverse reading:

 

“This sheet of 2d. 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) King George VI stamps of this denomination for Sideways Rolls.

 

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

 

(Initialled) JWH
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”