1840 2d. blue plate 2 OH-OL strip of five with mainly good to very large margins, touched at left, used with clear neat strikes of Scottish Maltese Crosses in black, small split in margin between OI and OJ at top and OJ with diagonal crease not detracting from appearance, otherwise fine and most attractive, a rare strip. S.G. Spec. DS8. Photo.
[Proposed price: £2600-2800]
Auction of Great Britain Postage Stamps and Postal History
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Grosvenor Auctions Auction of Great Britain Postage Stamps and Postal History
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Lot #1502 - Great Britain 1840 one penny black and two pence blue
Lot #1503 - Great Britain 1840 one penny black and two pence blue
1840 2d. deep blue plate 2 QI with good to large margins, used with scarce neat red Maltese Cross, small top left corner crease not detracting, very fine appearance. S.G. DS7f, cat. £1,750. Photo.
[Proposed price: £220-250]
Lot #1504 - Great Britain 1840 one penny black and two pence blue
1840 2d. blue plate 2 RL, close at top otherwise large margins, used with scarce complete light red Maltese Cross, tiny top left corner crease, fine appearance. S.G. Spec. DS8f, cat. £1,750. Photo.
[Proposed price: £200-220]
Lot #1505 - Great Britain 1840 one penny black and two pence blue
1840 2d. blue plate 2 SF, good to large even margins, very fine used with light red Maltese Cross, scarce and attractive. S.G. Spec. DS8f, cat. £1,750. Photo.
[Proposed price: £600-700]
Lot #1506 - Great Britain 1840 Rainbow Colour Trials
1840 Rainbow Colour Trials: Second trial plate, state 2 [R3/4] corner single in lilac-pink on unwatermarked, ungummed, wove paper, dipped in prussiate of potash, mounted in corner of margin, very fine. B.P.A. certificate (2014). S.G. Spec. DP20(2)a, cat. from £4,500. Photo.
[Proposed price: £1600-1800]
Lot #1507 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown unused and used group comprising block of four with large part original gum, single with four margins used with number “4” in Maltese Cross and strip of five with margins all round used with number “5” in Maltese Crosses, mixed condition. Photo.
[Proposed price: £280-300]
Lot #1508 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. mint group with red-brown KJ with close to large margins showing part of adjoining impression at foot (gum crease), red-brown MD-ND vertical pair, touched at top right otherwise just clear to good margins, and orange-brown BJ-BK pair, good margins all round but with creases. Photo.
[Proposed price: £300-350]
Lot #1509 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown a used collection of unplated examples on leaves, incl. around 200 with Maltese Cross, multiples, some with four margins, etc., mixed condition. (approx. 900)
[Proposed price: £1000-1200]
Lot #1510 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown used collection on leaves with ‘black’ plates 1b to 11, alphabet I plates 12 to 131 and alphabet II plates 132 to 175 apparently complete (not checked) incl. rare plates 107 RD (just touched at sides), 175 JD (slight creasing at foot), range of shades incl. lake-red (2), orange-brown, thin papers, thicker lavender-tinted paper (2), a few with numbers in Maltese Cross, blue numerals, inverted watermark plate 167 IF and SD,...
Lot #1511 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. and 2d. mainly used accumulation on stockpages, with a quantity of 1d’s incl. ‘black’ plates (30), plates 1b to 11 incl. plate 5 DA repaired state, plate 8 FL with Manchester ‘fishtail’ Maltese Cross (creased), plate 9 JI-JJ and KA-KB pairs, plate 10 RH-RI pair (RI re-entry), numbers in Maltese Cross (36) with all numbers represented, selection of distinctive Crosses, coloured cancellations, a few unused or mint, and 2d’s (85) incl....
Lot #1513 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
A selection of numbers in Maltese cross cancellations, incl. 1841 1d. with number 1 (2), 2 (5), 3 (3), 4, 5 (4), 6, 7 (3), 8 (4), 9 (2), 10, 11 (2) and 12, also 7 and 11 on piece, and 1841 2d. with numbers 2, 6, and 12 (2), mixed condition. (35)
[Proposed price: £500-600]
Lot #1514 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
Line Engraved: A selection of 1841 1d. red-brown with numbers in Maltese cross cancellations, comprising 1 to 12 complete (3), and numbers 7 and 9 on cover, mixed condition. (38)
[Proposed price: £500-600]
Lot #1515 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown selection of used examples with distinctive Maltese Crosses incl. Dublin I and II, Edinburgh on 1841 (May 11th) cover, Leamington on piece, another on 1841 (Aug. 27th) cover (filing fold through adhesive), London ‘broken points’ on plate 10 JD, Norwich (crease), York (vertical crease at right), etc., mainly fine, one just touched, the others with four margins. (10)
[Proposed price: £400-450]
Lot #1516 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown set (12) of numbers in Maltese Crosses, mainly clear strikes, all with four margins except “1” just cut into and “4” just touched at top left. S.G. cat. £3,045.
[Proposed price: £300-350]
Lot #1517 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown used set (12) of numbers “1” to “12” in Maltese Crosses, each with four margins, close in places, with clear, mainly upright, strikes, “3” and “11” with small thins. S.G. Spec. B1ua-ul, cat. £3,045.
[Proposed price: £250-300]
Lot #1518 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown DD an unmounted mint example with four small to huge margins, slight creasing, otherwise fine, S.G. 8, cat. £600. Photo.
[Proposed price: £100-120]
Lot #1519 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown EL, just clear at lower left otherwise good to large margins, well tied to 1852 (Feb. 1st) envelope to Macclesfield by a superb strike of the “448” numeral cancellation of Leek in blue, leaving profile clear, horizontal filing fold just above adhesive, most attractive and scarce. S.G. Spec. B1xb, cat. £750. Photo.
[Proposed price: £150-180]
Lot #1520 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown GE used only with town cancellation in black, just touched at top left, otherwise fine. S.G. Spec. B1va, cat. from £800. Photo.
[Proposed price: £80-100]
Lot #1521 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown HB used with neat blue Maltese Cross, heavily toned, otherwise fine. S.G. Spec. B1sc, cat. £650. Photo.
[Proposed price: £80-100]
Lot #1522 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown used selection of ‘black’ plates with plates 1b FA (double “F”), 2 AG, 5 EH, GG, NK on 1841 (May 30th) cover and TE, 8 EH, FH, NI state 2, RH with Manchester ‘fishtail’ Maltese Cross (just cut into at foot) and SK, 9 AH State 3 and LE, 10 BD State 2, II and PI, and 11 GK (2), MB, MD, MH, RI and SB, varied condition, mainly fine four margin examples. (23)
[Proposed price: £500-600]
Lot #1523 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown group of covers, with plate 1b PG, 2 FE, 5 NB, 8 DL and HD, 9 OC and PA, 10 JG,11 KH, OB and PG, also plate 10 LA and plate 11 BE together on OHMS cover, mixed condition.
[Proposed price: £200-250]
Lot #1524 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown plate 1b FC with good to large even margins, very fine used with light black Maltese Cross leaving profile clear. B.P.A. certificate (1986). S.G. Spec. AS6. Photo.
[Proposed price: £120-150]
Lot #1525 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown plate 1b HE, small to large margins, used with three black Maltese Crosses on 1841 (Jun. 7) wrapper to Dudley, heavy vertical filing crease and minor reinforcements, otherwise fine. R.P.S. certificate (2010). S.G. Spec. AS6. Photo.
[Proposed price: £100-120]
Lot #1526 - Great Britain 1841 one penny red-brown and two pence blue
1841 1d. red-brown plate 1b RD with good to large margins, used on 1841 (July 6th) entire letter from Leeds to Birmingham, cancelled by two strikes of the distinctive Maltese Cross of Leeds, with R.P.S. certificate (1992) which does not mention “distinctive”, but with a subsequent letter from the R.P.S.L. expert committee stating “Leeds distinctive cross fair double strike on Penny Red cover to Birmingham - stamp has been lifted and ironed...
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