Great Britain 1840 1d Black Plate 5 cover, SG2

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Great Britain 1840 1d Black Plate 5 cover, SG2Great Britain 1840 1d Black Plate 5 cover, SG2. A huge four margin example lettered 'SL', neatly tied to a clean, fresh wrapper by a red Maltese Cross. Addressed to Carlisle with a London dispatch circular date stamp on reverse for 'OC. 1840.' An exceptional quality penny black cover. Pristine condition penny black covers with four large margins are scarce. A lovely example of the postal use of the worlds first postage stamp and the most important

A fine example of this pre-PO unofficial postage charge and an interesting very early piece of Channel Islands postal history

The idea for the series came from the famous stamp collecting President

In the first

Details of the collection:

Phaselis AR Stater 4th c bc

Original Morocco and gilt cover

the government decided to mark this occasion by issuing a special set of postage stamps

gummed paper with purple head plate and orange duty plate

A major GB philatelic rarity with “proof like impression” of the white lines added 2d blue stamp of 1841

one of only 25 possible examples many of which are institutional collections

A fine quality mint self-adhesive set and particularly desirable as marginal pairs

A scarce printing variety at a very reasonable value