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

2d. blue, plate 1, block of four, lettered FI-GJ, mostly good to large margins all round, close in places, deep shade, cancelled with neatly-struck Maltese Crosses in red, FI-FJ with crease, some repairs, but a fine-appearing block that presents beautifully. Cert RPSL (2001). Gi. DS5 = £22,000.rnProvenance: Stanley Gibbons auction, 7-9 July 1972, lot 605; H.F. Johnson Stock Collection, Stanley Gibbons, 27-28 May 1982, lot 159.