Lot 145
1926 stolen London 6d Colour Trial pair used on piece ‡





The Moody Tidwell Collection of South Africa, with Important Pioneer Airmails | S26032
Auction: 17 December 2026, 10:00 GMT
Description
1926 6d Colour Trial pair in blackish green and red-orange, used on piece of registered envelope with Johannesburg Registered cds of 24 JAN 28. From the sheet stolen by Philip Callard, a retired manager at the Government Printing Works, who is reported to have used six pairs to give the stamps the appearance of legitimacy; he was convicted of the theft in 1931 and sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour. This pair is from his earliest posting and comes with a typewritten contemporary account of the trial. SG 32





