Lot 1275
GB 1857-64 1d red Repaired Impressions ex Wiggins
Stamps & Covers of Great Britain | S25019
Auction: 16 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Blue Leather Album with Gold inscription, being the actual pages and stamps illustrated in Dr W.R.D. Wiggins' book "Repaired Impressions" (published 1982), this being Volume LVI, covering pages 96-138 (the end of the perforated “stars”). Offered intact with every stamp illustrated included (except the piece at top of page 99 with Pearson Hill experimental duplex) covering plates 52-61 and full of scarce repairs including plate 52 TA state 2 with error of watermark, TA-TE mint corner plate number strip, TG an extra page of repairs not illustrated, 55 TL state 2 corner plate example, plate 56 used block of twelve RA-TD, mint corner plate block RA-TC with TA-TC in state 2. Some in perf 16 (SG 36). Wonderful opportunity for the specialist. Spec. C10-C11. 5 covers, 270+ stamps/pieces.
