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December 8 & 9, 2025 | 23
50002
P
S.G. DP66
1870 April-May colour trials for the 1/2d bantam stamps, a single impression as struck from the small
plate of six incomplete impressions of the New South Wales “Diadem” issues on white wove paper in
orange ochre.
460 - 500
50003
P
1840 1d black pl.1a GI-GJ horizontal pair, with large balanced margins, affixed to a piece of laid paper,
GI tied by a superb clear strike of the red Maltese Cross and GJ tied by a very fine clear strike of the
black London “T/MY - 13/1840” circular date stamp, the piece inscribed “Obliterating stamp” and
“dated stamp in ink” denoting the respective cancellations; The finest of all the known examples of
this cancellation trial, including that of R.M. Phillips in the National Postal Museum. A spectacular Great
Britain rarity, of major importance and worthy of the greatest exhibit.
Provenance: Ex “The Northbrook Papers” Christies Robson Lowe December 1996.
Literature: Illustrated in “The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century” (second edition) by
Robson Lowe page 119.
30’000 - 34’000