Lot 198
GB SG 464, 487, 505 collection mint
The Academic Collection | Part 5 | S25008
Auction: 21 May 2025 at 10:30 BST
Description
1937-52 1½d mint collection on leaves. Red-brown with several Cylinder blocks, a couple with doubled perfs due to encroachment; two with fold-overs giving angled perfs in the selvedge; broken Crown block (variety heavily hinged). Pale red-brown with several non-standard Cylinder blocks; block of eighteen with four stamps affected by an intrusion, leaving a blank area 25 x 19mm (reinforced but very striking); two unmounted strips with the top stamps only partially printed; marginal horizontal strip of six, all affected by a dry print, progressive with the right stamp largely blank; retouched forehead Cylinder block, unmounted, also on the pale green. The pale green also has spot in daffodil leaf, extended serif and deformed fleur-de-lis variety blocks. SG 464, 487, 505
