Lot 463
South Georgia. 1923 bisected use of the 2½d...

Stamps and Postal History of the World | 5938
Auction: 22 November 2022 at 00:00 GMT
£240
Description
South Georgia. 1923 bisected use of the 2½d deep blue, the lower half diagonally bisect for use as 1d, tied to piece by backdated South Georgia ''MR 30/23'' CDS, the day date employing distinctive locally improvised ''3''. Ex Lawson, displayed to the RPSL on 29th May 1924 to illustrate his presentation on these unauthorised bisects; ''South Georgia (Falkland Islands): Notes Regarding the Unauthorised Bisected Stamp of March, 1923''. Together with a press report of the presentation. (Also see ''The Bisected Stamps of 1923'' by Malcolm Barton, Upland Goose Vol. VIII, no. 6, Dec. 1986.) Ex Bryant Rose

