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1937-38 ½d to 2s6d, set of 8 unique vertical marginal Registration blocks spanning the sheet
Estimate
180,000 - 220,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Stamps
comprising ½d to 1s blocks of 48 with marginal arrows either end and the 2s6d a block of 35, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £927,000+
Catalogue Note
REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE
Each block with a typewritten Registration Certificate on the reverse, the ½d reading:
“This sheet of ½d. Postage Due Labels, 240 set, was taken in the presence of the Post Office Control Officer at the factory of Messrs. Harrison and Sons, at High Wycombe for the registration of the first print of this denomination on paper with the G.VI R. watermark.
(Signed) D.P. Dell
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
2nd March, 1938.
(Initialled) HWP
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”
The other values dated as follows:
1d ‘8th March, 1938.’
2d ‘21 March, 1938.’
3d ‘26th November, 1937.’
4d ‘26th July, 1937.’
5d ‘14th March, 1938.’
1s ‘26th July, 1937.’
2s6d ’29 August, 1938.’