Auction 309-320 - Great Britain 1840–1841 Europe & Overseas - Day 5

1d. black, plate 2, horizontal strip of eight, lettered BE-BL, mostly clear to good margins all around, touching at lower right, creases, vertical on BF and BK and in the corners of BE and BL, yet a very rare strip of great appeal; the second largest used strip recorded in the Karl Louis Card Index. Cert. RPSL (2023). Gi. AS14 = £5,000+rnProvenance: Collection Sugden, Harmers of London, 8-9 September, 1951, lot 83; Robson Lowe, 13 October, 1959, lot 332.rn