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

1869 (July 7): 2 d. blue, plate 13, lettered AB, an Imprimatur, marginal from top of sheet with part imprint "2s/- Per Row of", fresh and very fine. Just 21 examples were removed from the Imprimatur sheet. Rare Gi G3 = £ 4'750.
Remark: This 2d AB, adjoins the corner Imprimatur AA in the National Postal Museum London, Phillips collection vol XXIX, page 6.
Provenance: Collection Lady Mairi Bury, Sotheby's 24-26. Nov. 2010, lot 1284; Collection 'Great Britain The Line Engraved Issus 1840–1870', The Åke Rietz Collection, Corinphila 7 June 2023.