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Auction: 26024 - The 'Mulberry' Collection of Great Britain King Edward VII Issues
Lot: 2049

Great Britain
King Edward VII
1902-10 De La Rue
Half-Penny
Yellow-green vertical pair from the foot of the sheet, the lower stamp showing variety doubly printed, mounted on the upper stamp and margin only, leaving the variety stamp unmounted mint. A major rarity. Spec. M2(2)d, S.G. 218d, £20,000

Notes: Only thirteen examples exist, all from a single row at the foot of a sheet with control 'H9'. While the collector's page indicates that this is ex Silkin, it is in fact the neighbouring example to the right, position five on the sheet.

literature:
Illustrated in 'British Postage Stamp Varieties Illustrated', R.C. Alcock and C.W. Meredith. In this publication is written: "Of the variety Kohl's "Briefmarken-Handbuch says "This variety is taken from a sheet with control letter H9 which was issued in the ordinary way in the autumn of 1909. The double printing began with the second stamp of the lowest row, with the doubling of the lower part of the design, and extended obliquely upwards so that on the last three stamps of the row the whole design is doubled, the doubling extending to the lower part of the last two stamps of the row above. There can exist, therefore, only thirteen stamps showing the double-printing - three with the whole design doubled and the other ten with the design more of less doubled"

provenance:
Fisher
Sotheby's Great Britain Auction, 21 Nov. 1991, Lot 141




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Estimate
£5,000 to £10,000

Starting price
£4000