Lot 370
Falkland Islands 1904-12 SG 48 KEVII 1s brown sheet, order form & cover
Stamps & Covers of The World Including the Petra Collection | S25021
Auction: 25 November 2025 at 10:30 GMT
Description
1904-12 KEVII 1s brown, complete sheet lacking the upper left corner stamp, brilliant fresh o.g. (trace of hinge on one stamp only), Only 255 sheets printed and a remarkable item in its own right, but much enhanced by the presence of the missing stamp, tied to a large official registered cover (Royal Arms on flap) to Buenos Aires by type F4C cds dated ‘AU 5 10’ with blue ‘Falkland Islands’ registration label at lower left. The cover (which must be extremely rare as a commercial solo franking of 1s paying quadruple rate + 2d registration), addressed to the President of the Argentine Philatelic Society contained this and other sheets, making up a £10 order (original invoice enclosed!) The official form, dated 2/8/10, begins ‘…. Stamps which I enclose herewith as enumerated below PART OF WHICH ARE ON THE ENVELOPE’. A wonderful piece of philatelic history, and a quite extraordinary survival, to have the stamp on cover and the very sheet from which it came! SG 48, cat £2,990+
