Auction 321 - 332 Europe & Overseas Great Britain & British Commonwealth - Day 3

1881 (March 23): 2½ d. blue, Plate 23, wmk. Crown, lettered MI-ML / NI-NL, an unused block of eight, marginal from right of sheet, of fine fresh colour, overprinted SPECIMEN (Type 9) in black. Fresh and very fine, unmounted og. Gi J25s = £ 1'400.rnProvenance: Chrities 4 June 1992, lot 4210; Collection Sir Gawaine Baillie, Sotheby's, London, 28 Sept 2005, lot 138.