Lot 463

Great Britain 1924 (DUES-M) SGD18var

Stamps & Covers of Great Britain | S24019

Auction: 12 November 2024 at 10:30 GMT

Estimate: £2,000 - £2,500

Description

1924 2s6d Postage due colour/paper trials (4th series - 21st Jan 1924). A superb imperforate irregular block of three printed in purple on gummed, wove unwatermarked tinted paper mounted on brown card numbered "SD6" and annotated with the official colour description "No.7/Purple". A series of 24 different colour trials were produced at Somerset House from aspecially made Royal Mint plate of four impressions of the ½d die, this is from the fourth series of six in purple on different yellow tinted papers. In the place of the missing 4th stamp can be seen a manuscript annotation "To HM" (His Majesty) and now resides in the Royal Philatelic Collection. A spectacular and unique piece. SG D18var