Lot 405
Leeward Islands SG 114 block used

The Academic Collection | Part 2 | 5963
Auction: 29 February 2024 at 10:00 GMT
£624
Description
1938 £1 red-purple and black on brick-red paper (second printing) top right corner block of four with sheet number 87, GPO Plymouth CDS SP 19 42. HPF #11 but no flaw at #12, proving printing. Side selvedge reinforced. SG 114, £2000
Footnote
The sheet number is an anomaly. Sheets from the original printing (43 sent to the colony) were unnumbered; those from the second printing (39 sheets) were numbered but from 1 upwards. It seems to be a fair assumption that this block came from a sheet included with the despatch of the third printing, of which 100 numbered sheets were sent to the colony. The postmark date (although very early for the third printing) seems to support this supposition

