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

1d. black, plate 8, imperforate imprimatur, lettered TJ, unused, without gum, as always, four good to large margins, showing the major re-entry,  pleasing deep colour, one of only twenty three examples removed from the registration sheet, particularly desirable with the re-entry, very fine and rare. Cert RPSL (1974) (Photocopy, also showing the stamp from position TK). Gi. = £18,000+.rnProvenance: J.B. Seymour Collection, Robson Lowe, 11 April 1951, lot 86; Robson Lowe, 21 September 1955, lot 113; Collection Cawardine, Spink London, 20 September, 2001, lot 1409; Collection Severn, David Feldman, 14 April, 2010, lot 20627.