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

1854/58, Six album pages, neatly written-up, dedicated to errors in the line engraved perforation process, comprises three covers, two unused 1 d. red blocks of six, one from plate 188, lettered FD-GF, twenty used stamps, mostly reds but several 2 d. blues, a strip of three and strip of six, study includes; plate layout, printing process, reperforation and rough/incomplete perforations, some dramatic misplacement of vertical and horizontal perforations, as well as noted ghost perforations and partial imperf. stamps, mixed condition, with fine examples, a scarce, high catalogue value, an excellent assembly.rnProvenance: (Block of Six, Plate 188, FD-GF, was part of a block of twenty one) Ex. Griffiths Collection, Christies, 27 June 1985, lot 4308; Habsburg, Feldman, 27 November 1989, lot 30364; Phillips, 4 April 1996, lot 417.rn     rn