Lot 190
GB SG 129 1878 £1 Colour Trial

Stamps & Covers of The World Including Great Britain, 30th-31st July | S25013
Auction: 30 July 2025 at 11:00 BST
£3,840
Description
1878 £1 colour trial in greyish drab, watermark Maltese Cross, perf 14 (issued stamps perf 15½ x 15), lettered AA. Believed to be the unique colour trial of the £1 in private hands, the others all in either the Royal Philatelic Collection or the R.M. Phillips Collection in the British Postal Museum Archive. Hints of toning on the gum. For SG 129

