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

1d. black, plate 5, imprimatur from the second registration sheet, lettered SH, unused, without gum as are all examples, margins ample to large, trivial wrinkle at lower left mentioned for strict accuracy, deep colour, a fine and rare example of this imprimatur, one of only twenty three examples removed from the sheet. Cert RPSL (1966).  Gi. = £15,000. rnProvenance: H.R. Harmer, 21 - 28 September, 1925, lot 353 or 354; H.R. Harmer, 3-4 October, 1966, lot 10.