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Auction: 9020 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1496

Great Britain Collections and Ranges A Q.E. selection of errors and varieties in two stockbooks, the arrangement is a little haphazard but includes a few Wildings, 1988 Castles £2 misplaced perforations, 1992-95 Castles with misplaced perforations on £1 (13), £1.50, £2 (5) and £3; commemoratives with 1960 EUROPA 1/6d. brown shift (2), 1966 World Cup 6d. black omitted and black shift, Birds missing legs, 1967 EFTA 9d. lilac omitted, green omitted, 1968 Christmas 4d. lower margin block of four with large vermilion ink smudge, 4d. with blue shift, 1969 Ships 5d. red omitted (2) and perf. shift, Anniversaries 9d. blue shift, 1970 Anniversaries 5d. gold shift, 1/- gold omitted (3), green omitted and with brown omitted, 1/6d. emerald omitted, 1970 Christmas 4d. misplaced phosphor (4), 5d. perf. shift (3), emerald omitted and emerald shift; decimal issues including 1972 Christmas 3p. bright green omitted, 1974 U.P.U. 3 1/2p. perf, shift (2), 1976 Printing 11p. gold shift, 1979 Christmas 8d. ochre and other colours shifted (6), 13p. perf. shift, 1984 Urban Renewal 16p. perf, shift, 1985 British Film Year 34p. silver shift (2), Christmas 12p. perf. shift, 1990 Kew Gardens 37p. perf. shift, 1999 Millennium (19) 28p. perf. shift, 2003 Christmas 2nd with large extra pool of greenish yellow, plus others. Condition is generally fine with all stamps apparently unmounted mint, most the the above shifts are quite significant. Also a selection of some earlier and from other countries. Estimate £ 1,000-1,200

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