Lot 399
Malaya BMA mint group
The Academic Collection | Part 4 | S24025
Auction: 16 December 2024 at 10:30 GMT
Description
1945-8 group, largely of multiples, mainly mint, arranged on exhibition pages with the Postal History removed. 2c striated paper corner block of twelve and two Plate blocks, one in a very unusual pale shade; 6c striated paper block with overprint misplaced upwards to left; 8c striated paper four mint blocks, two being Plate blocks, and a marginal block with overprint misplace sufficiently for the ‘A’ of BMA to fall on the adjacent stamps, with a used block and four singles, one on piece with straight-line P.SERAI P.O. cancel; 10c striated paper four mint blocks, two being Plate blocks and seven used including a block; 25c striated four mint blocks two being Plate blocks, one with overprint offset on selvedge and fourteen used including two blocks; 50c corner block with the fishtail ‘5’ on R8/2. Ex Cockburn, with his detailed write-up
