Lot 15
1953 to 1975 specialised mint collection in four stock books including commemoratives in irregular blocks showing varieties
Stamp Collections & Ranges | S24010
Auction: 12 June 2024 at 14:00 BST
Description
1953 to 1975 specialised mint collection in four stock books including commemoratives in irregular blocks showing various varieties, 1958 Commonwealth Games shoulder flaw (3), 1960 3d GLO mane flaw, 1961 GPO 3d perf through side margin and 3d orange partially omitted, NPY 3d lake in Yorkshire (2), NPY, FFH, Lifeboats, Red Cross, Geographical and Botanical phosphors sets plate blocks of 6, Botanical 9d line through ‘INTER’ ordinary and phosphor, and 9d watermark inverted, 1965 9d ITU blue shift (4), Wildings, various varieties, including coil-join strips of 4 to 5d, watermark varieties etc, 2½d paper-join, 2½d Crowns block of 30 (3 x 10) with dramatic wiper-blade flaw affecting 8 stamps, 3d phantom ‘R’, 3d block of 40 (4 x 10) row 2 showing dramatic doctor blade flaw, 1955 Waterlows to £1, training school stamps to £1, 1967 Machins including a poached egg coil leader, 1967 4d Christmas gold omitted, various phosphor omitted, 1969 1s6d Christmas vertical strip of 6 with paper join, 1970 Anniversaries 1s6d emerald omitted, 1970 Christmas 3d green shift, 1972 3p Explorers gold (Queen’ head omitted), 3p Inigo Jones gold head shift, plus a selection of pre-decimal booklets 2s to 10s. Careful viewing recommended, condition good to fine. (thousands)
