1869-72 no watermark 4d pale brown, good to large margins, large part og. Very fine. SG 2, £500 (Image)

1869-72 no watermark 4d pale brown, good to large margins, embossing slightly misplaced. Small brown patch of gum otherwise large part og. Fresh appearance and fine. SG 2, £500 (Image)

1883 (July 24) group of five (from an original set of six) colour trials prepared by De La Rue as a new colour scheme ('The Universal Colour Scale'), subsequently adopted for the 1886-93 wmk CA issue, comprising four examples of the ½d value, respectively in dull green (adopted), carmine (adopted for 1d), orange (adopted for 2d) and pale mauve (intended for 1s), and 3d in yellowish olive-green (adopted for 6d), each line perf 12, wmk CA (upright), part o.g. A couple of perf faults but a wonderful group of the highest rarity, ex Weldhen and Dale-Lichtenstein. (The sixth trial in this series was the ½d in grey (for the 3d value), of which there were two examples in the Bavington-Jones collection). (Image)

Mainly mint on leaves including 1874 4d and 6d, 1880 values to 6d (faults), 1886-93 duplicated values to 1s, 1898 to 1s, 1902-05 to 3s, 1904 -06 to 2s, 1921-22 to 4s, 1922-29 to 10s, 1930 to 10s and used, 1953, 1963, 1965 and 1966 to £1, plus later to 1967. Slightly mixed condition, still many good to fine (hundreds)