Lot 28
  • 28

1936 1½d red-brown, tête-bêche, unique horizontal marginal Registration block of 32 spanning the sheet with a 52.5mm vertical gutter margin between two tête-bêche blocks of 16

Estimate
32,000 - 40,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Stamps
printed marginal number ‘038182’, full original gum. Stanley Gibbons Catalogue £164,000+

Catalogue Note

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Typed Registration Certificate on the reverse reading:

 

“This sheet of 1½d. Unified Stamps, 160 set, was taken in the presence of the P.O. Control Officer at the factory of Messrs. Harrison & Sons, Ltd. at High Wycombe for the registration of the first print of King Edward VIII stamps of this denomination for Books.

 

(Signed) D.P.Dell
Senior Staff Officer.
1 October, 1936.

 

(Initialled) WR
Stores Department,
Stamp Section.”