unused The extensive collection of the various printings and plate flaws, all neatly mounted and written up on album pages, comprising ½d. green (141 including seven showing the elongated "E" and three coil pairs), ½d. brown-purple (31 including two showing the elongated "E"), 1d. carmine (52 including seven coil pairs), 1d. olive-grey (141 including one perforated "SPECIMEN"), 1½d. (102), 2d. pale slate (26), 2d. scarlet (97 including one showing short "T" and one perforated "SPECIMEN"), 2d. green (91, four used), 2½d. ultramarine (20). 2½d. violet (37), 3d. violet (22), 3d. blue (59), 3d. scarlet (38), 3d. on 2½d. (37), 4d. (16), 6d. (18), 8d. (16), 10d. (36), 1/- (77 including six annotated as from the rare 1942 second printing - two are used), 5/- (111 including eight annotated as being from the 1938 first printing and two from the rare 1942 second printing - one with heavy hinge remainders and the other with light stains on reverse) and #1 (9 including two from the 1938 first printing), many in blocks of four or larger with a number showing plate number, also included are some Columbus overprints showing the continuation of some of the plate flaws plus a number of covers. A very fine lot for the specialist
unused The extensive collection of the various printings and plate flaws, all neatly mounted and written up on album pages, comprising ½d. green (141 including seven showing the elongated "E" and three coil pairs), ½d. brown-purple (31 including two showing the elongated "E"), 1d. carmine (52 including seven coil pairs), 1d. olive-grey (141 including one perforated "SPECIMEN"), 1½d. (102), 2d. pale slate (26), 2d. scarlet (97 including one showing short "T" and one perforated "SPECIMEN"), 2d. green (91, four used), 2½d. ultramarine (20). 2½d. violet (37), 3d. violet (22), 3d. blue (59), 3d. scarlet (38), 3d. on 2½d. (37), 4d. (16), 6d. (18), 8d. (16), 10d. (36), 1/- (77 including six annotated as from the rare 1942 second printing - two are used), 5/- (111 including eight annotated as being from the 1938 first printing and two from the rare 1942 second printing - one with heavy hinge remainders and the other with light stains on reverse) and #1 (9 including two from the 1938 first printing), many in blocks of four or larger with a number showing plate number, also included are some Columbus overprints showing the continuation of some of the plate flaws plus a number of covers. A very fine lot for the specialist
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