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

1d. red-brown, plate 9, block of four, lettered PG-QH, good to large margins, touching at left of QG, unused, large part original gum, beautiful rich colour, creases and slight thins including small paper fault in "N" of PENNY on PH yet a rare multiple from the "Dublin Find".  Gi.AS59 = £25,000.rnrnLiterature:rnIllustrated in "The Dublin Find", Don Madden and Karl Louis, page 35.rnrnProvenance:rn"The Dublin Find", Plumridge & Co, 2 March, 1904.rnStanley Gibbons, 7-9 June, 1972, lot 635.