Lot 334
Falkland Islands 1891 BW archive Specimen 'set' of three

Stamps & Covers of The World Including the Petra Collection | S25021
Auction: 25 November 2025 at 10:30 GMT
Description
1891 (-1902) ½d blue-green, 1d orange red-brown, 2½d pale chalky ultramarine, from the Aug 1891 or Oct 1891 (1d) printings, each with red "SPECIMEN." handstamp (16.5 x 2mm), affixed to pieces as usual, from the BW archive sheets. An attractive "set", only 60 of each existed and now seldom seen.

