Lot 52
GB SG Spec DP65 ½d colour trials

Stamps & Covers of The World Including Great Britain, 30th-31st July | S25013
Auction: 30 July 2025 at 11:00 BST
Estimate: £2,000 - £2,500
Description
1870 ½d colour trials using the engine-turned background set of three roughly torn bands in chrome yellow, yellow green (on white wove) and dark blue green (on blue wove), very fine and rare, we record only three other pieces in private hands. Spec. DP65 priced £9000+
Footnote
Ex Bates (1934) and illustrated in the ''The Line Engraved Halfpenny'' Messenger Fig 7

