Lot 681
Long Island SG 5 block unused

Stamps & Covers of The World Including Great Britain, 30th-31st July | S25013
Auction: 30 July 2025 at 11:00 BST
£13,200
Description
1916 Typewritten (carbon) ½d blue on pale green wove with horizontal grey lines, upper left corner block of four, (pos. 1-2/5-6_ from a sheet of 12 (4x3) with plate number ‘2a’ showing variety ‘semicolon for colon’ at the top left frame on pos.1 mint fine o.g. A unique and spectacular multiple. 40 of this stamp were produced but only 14 unused examples were recorded by Gibbs with this the only multiple and especially desirable with the plate number. SG 5 £10,000+
Footnote
Ex 'Mountrobeck' (CRL 1.6.1994 Lot 26)

