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

1855: 2 d. blue on blued paper, Die I, Alphabet III, wmk. Large Crown, plate 6, perf. 14, lettered PE-PF / QE-QF, an unused block of four, showing the PE and QE prominent reentries, closed tear at top of PE and one short perf on QF and small natural paper inclusion on QE, otherwise of fine fresh colour, large part og. A very rare and attractive multiple Gi F7 = £ 17'000.
Provenance: RPSL Jubilee Exhibition (May 1935); Collection J.B. Seymour, Robson Lowe, 29. Oct. 1952, lot 164; Stanley Gibbons, 9. May 1985, lot 609; Collection 'Great Britain The Line Engraved Issus 1840–1870', The Åke Rietz Collection, Corinphila 7 June 2023.