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Great Britain, 1841, 2d blue, "white lines", Handstamped "Specimen" Overprint. Mint Block of Eight (Plate 3, Lettered FA/GD), ample to large margins all round, sheet marginal at left
with imprint "Back be careful not to remove the Ce(ment)", GD with double letter variety, of outstanding color and freshness, full unmounted original gum, Extremely Fine, a truly magnificent and spectacular multiple for the Line Engraved
connoisseur, many of the surviving copies are heavily creased and/or oxidized, this block is the nicest multiple the collector could find and had the desire to own. Scott No. 4. SG No. 14s; £44,000 as singles ($58,520); Estimate $10,000 -
15,000.
The existence of the 1841, 1d. red-brown and 2d. blue handstamped SPECIMEN was first reported in "The British Philatelist" in March 1934 when…"quite recently a block of thirty-one of the One Penny and a block of thirty of
the Two Pence, plate 3, turned up…which have not hitherto been known overprinted specimen". Specimen overprinted sheets of the 1d. and 2d. have been sent on request of the Prussian, Austrian and Neapolitan Post Offices in 1849 as samples, when
these countries were planning to issue first adhesive postage stamps similar as the British Post Office. Entire sheets of the 1 d. red-brown, plate 88, and 2d. blue, plate 3, overprinted SPECIMEN sent to Prussia is still in the National Heritage
Stamp Collection of the National Postal Museum in Berlin.
Provenance: Heinrich Koher, Sep 2006 "Forrester" Collection (2008).
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SG £44,000 as singles ($58,520) Est. $10,000-15,000
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