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

1 d. black, plate 7, block of four, lettered QA-RB, close to large margins, tied by smudged Maltese Cross cancellations in red to folded entire from Dundee to Edinburgh, with black boxed despatch (13 February, 1841) and same-day receiver backstamps, the block showing signs of having been lifted and replaced, the entire with pressed creases and signs of repair, but a rare franking, the largest recorded block of this plate recorded on cover Gi. AS46.

Provenance: Collection "K.M.", Spink, London, 6 June 2007, lot 353.