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

1848, 1 d. red, plate 70, lettered RA-SA, vertical pair, Henry Archer Roulette Trail, approx. gauge 11.5 to three sides, the left margin without roulette as can be seen on all outer specimens from that multiple, the plate 70 trial sheet being cut from PA-TL, unused, with large part of original gum, both have a tear in right side and RA a pin hole from being attached to an official document, some tone spots, otherwise fresh and attractive, formerly adjoining a block of six RB-SD which resides in the Royal Collection, rare multiple. Cert. BPA (1989). SG16b = £30'000 as two singles.rnReference: Henry Archer's Rouletting Machines, by Ray Simpson, FRPSL, The GB Journal, Volume 58, Number 6, November/December 2020.rnProvenance: Robson Lowe, 21 June 1950, lot 242; Harmer, 16 December 1997, lot 858; Timothy Burgess Collection (2003). rn                   rn