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

1840: 1 d. black, plate 1, lettered TG, an imperforate Imprimatur from the second registration sheet (after hardening), ungummed on white wove paper, large margins all round. Rare and very fine. Remarkably the other example lettered TG from the first registration sheet is in the National Postal Museum's Phillips Collection (see vol III p. 9), this then confirms that this Imprimatur was one of the 23 examples taken from the second registration sheet Gi = £ 15'000.
Provenance: Collection 'Great Britain The Line Engraved Issus 1840–1870', The Åke Rietz Collection, Corinphila 7 June 2023.