Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

1840: "VR" 1 d. black, prepared for use but not issued, imprimatur, lettered TA from the lower left corner of the second registration sheet, showing plate letter "A" and partial "Price 1d Per L..." inscription, manuscript initials "CP" below, thinning in left margin, light vertical crease, yet a rare and spectacular example, with only twenty seven stamps recorded as removed from this imprimatur sheet Gi. V1 = £20,000.

Provenance: Collection Leonard H. Clark, Robson Lowe, 29 May 1946, lot 9; Collection Chartwell, Spink London, 16 February 2012, lot 208.