Great Britain 1840 2d Blue Plate 1, SG5 Plate 1

Great Britain 1840 2d Blue Plate 1, SG5 Plate 1Great Britain 1840 2d Blue, Plate 1, SG5. A very fine and fresh unused large part original gum example lettered RE from the first printing plate of one of the world's first two postage stamps. The two penny blue is 10 times rarer than the penny black. Despite the thin margin on the bottom right of the stamp, it is very scarce in such fine condition, particularly benefiting from wonderful colour. The SG catalogue price is 38,000. ALERT ME WHEN ANOTHER

One of only seven in these colours

Unmounted mint with full original gum and scarce

The Queen remains a near universally popular figure

USA 1909 3c "George Washington" Deep violet (Experimental printing on bluish "rag" paper

Wood began his career as a guitarist with The Birds

A lovely example of this important British Royalty error

complete set of sixteen imperforate proof strips on gummed watermarked paper

mounted on thick card (57 x 81mm) showing ink manuscript "Dark Brown W/41"

and crowned himself as King at the Cathedral of Monza in Milan on May 26

Blue Plate 2

and actress who rose to prominence in the 1980s

1963 and 1964 respectively