PLATE 1 - 1860 UNISSUED ROSY-MAUVE 'SPECIMEN' TYPE 2 - lettered JA, no gum and slightly trimmed perfs at right, very scarce. SG £2250. Cross Reference: SPECIMENS (Image)

PLATE 1 - OP-PC ERROR OF LETTERING - centred to lower left and good used. SG £2000. (Image)

PLATE 3 - CA-DB MINT BLOCK OF FOUR - centred slightly low and with part gum, minor perf reinforcement. SG £2300. (Image)

STUDY ON PAGES - with plate 1 (10 inc. two 'long' stamps + strip of three with Azemar cancel + BD-CE fine block of four); and plate 3 (10, inc. with inv wmk (fair only)). Some with trimmed perfs though generally good to fine; SG £3300. (22 items) (Image)

MIXED PLATES MINT/UNUSED GROUP - HA matched pair plates 1 & 3 and MB-MC plate 1 pair, all with redistributed gum; plus GB plate 1 no gum, with GLYN perfin. (4 items) (Image)

PLATE 3 - SPECIMEN TYPES 9 & 10 - type 9 fine mounted mint, type 10 without gum. SG £600. (2)Cross Reference: SPECIMENS (Image)

1873-80 GROUP OF COVERS - plate 1 range with 1873 env. (flap missing) to Edinburgh franked 1½d single tied GLASGOW duplex, and 1875 EL (minor opening faults) to Marseille franked 1½d pair tied LIVERPOOL duplexes; and plate 3 range with 1879 2d reg. env. to Withington uprated with 1½d, 1879 env. to NY with 1½d used with 1d red plate 216, and 1880 EL to Bordeaux with 1½d used with 1d venetian red. Good to fine. (5) (Image)

COPESTAKE/VICKERS TRIO OF SECURITY UNDERPRINTS - plate 1 and plate 3 (trimmed perfs) with 'COPESTAKE,/MOORE,/CRAMPTON,& CO.,/London.' SG PP36 £150 each; and plate 3 with fine 'VICKERS/SONS & Co./LIMITED/SHEFFIELD.' SG PP311 £575. SG £875. Also plate 3 with poor (barely recognisable!) FORE STREET WAREHOUSE u/print. (4) Cross Reference: UNDERPRINTS/SECURITY OVERPRINTS (Image)

PERFIN GROUP ON TWO PAGES - inc. 'GLYN' of Glyn Mills & Co London (plates 1 & 3), 'BASS' of Bass Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd, 'CORY/C' of William Cory & Son Cardiff, and 'P. J/N. T' of Pryce Jones Ltd Newport. Mixed condition, some with trimmed perfs. SG £1495. (19)Cross Reference: PERFINS (Image)

USED ABROAD SELECTION - all plate 3, with "C30" of Valparaiso, "E53" of Haiti (pair), "F87" of Smyrna (SG£275), "ST. THOMAS" cds, "A26" of Gibraltar (SG£750) and "C38" of Callao (listed but unpriced by SG, slightly faded). SG £1325++. (7) Cross Reference: LEVANT - BRITISH, GIBRALTAR, PERU, G.B USED ABROAD STAMPS & COVERS (Image)