1927 Bradbury Wilkinson “Portals Mixed Furnish Paper” 2s6d, 5s and 10s, the set of 3 in unique Registration blocks of 36

full sheet margins, complete sheets less the lower right corner blocks of 4, fresh, full original gum. The 2s6d with a horizontal marginal crease developing into a split in the top margin and a 25mm tear in the lower margin clipping the outer frame-line of Position 37, both sensibly supported by light hinging; the 5s damaged at the upper left corner affecting Position 1. The damage to these sheets would appear to have happened when they were, at some time in the past, removed from a mount. AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL SET.

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

 

Each block with a typed Registration Certificate on the reverse; the 2s6d reading:

 

“This sheet of 2s6d. Postage Stamps (40 set) was taken in the presence of the Post Office Stores Department Control Officer at the factory of Messrs. Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. at New Malden, Surrey, for the registration of the first print on mixed furnish paper.

 

(Signed) WM Cook
Senior Staff Officer
26th (Manuscript) October 1927

 

(Initialled)
Post Office Stores Dept.,
Stamp Section,
Somerset House, W.C.2.”

 

The 5s and 10s with similar Registration Certificates

 

MANUSCRIPT MARGINAL ENDORSEMENTS

 

Each sheet endorsed in pencil in the lower left margin ‘Ackd 28/10/27’

 

When the lower right corner blocks were removed, for some obscure reason, the lower margins were trimmed off and have now been reattached with a light hinge. These margins have the following ink endorsements:

 

2s6d      ‘For Registration Plate No. 7/9
              HC Harris
              Control Officer 30/8/27’

 

5s          ‘For Registration Plate No 4/5
              HC Harris
              7/9/27’

 

10s         ‘For Registration Plate No 3/8
               HC Harris
               30/8/27’