Auction 321 - 332 Europe & Overseas Great Britain & British Commonwealth - Day 3

1870 (Oct 1): 1½ d. lake-red, plate 3, lettered NG-NL / TG-TL, an unused block of forty-two, marginal from base of sheet with italic imprint '(tow)ards the RIGHT HAND SIDE of the Letter. In Wetting the Back be careful not to remove the Cement' with "193" Current number below. Fine fresh colour and superb large part or unmounted og. A most exceptional and very rare large multiple: the second largest recorded from Plate 3 in the Karl Louis Card Index and the largest known block with sheet margin Gi G6(2) = £ 23'400.rnProvenance: Phillips, London 29 March 1990, lot 635.