Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas Americas (North, Central & South America) - Day 1

Second London Printing from new Perkins Bacon Plates 1855 (May): 5 c. red-brown on blued paper, a used block of eight with mostly full to very large margins (close to touched at upper left), cancelled by eight strikes of the black "target" handstamp. Scarce and fine. Cert. Holcombe (1985).