Lot 261
1884 9d Green ‘Unified’ issue. Striking book piece

The Phillips Collection of Great Britain | Part III | S24001
Auction: 4 April 2024 at 12:00 BST
£720
Description
1884 9d Green ‘Unified’ issue. Striking book piece, bearing a cut down die proof lettered AE-EA on glazed card mounted on buff card (59x53mm) endorsed ‘July 4th/" 6th, 240 leads Ea, 2 new formes July 6th' in black ink and additionally endorsed in red ‘These wrongly lettered in corners - Re-struck/ new formes, 27th July 83’. Fine and scarce. Ex De La Rue Archives SG 195. Cat £1850.

