Great Britain 1941-42 pale scarlet (pale colours, watermark sideways) imprimaturs, SG486a var

Great Britain 1941-42 pale scarlet (pale colours, watermark sideways) imprimaturs, SG486a varGreat Britain 1941 42 pale scarlet (pale colours, watermark sideways), SG486a var. A superb fresh unmounted mint, with full original gum, imperforate horizontal pair of imprimaturs with "BPMA" handstamp on reverse. Very scarce King George VI piece from the first approved printing sheet. Exceptional provenance as it was released from the British Postal Museum Archives in 2014. Prior to this it was stored in the museum archives in climate controlled

Particularly rare to find these stamps on cover

becoming leader of the French resistance

the British General Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) landed a British army in Lisbon and thus initiated the Peninsular War

A superb mint example of this great British Colonial rarity

Great Britain 1887 ½d vermillion (Army Telegraphs)

complete sheets of 20 (4x5) with decorative central vertical gutter

Fine appearance mint pair with large part original gum

A very difficult error to find in good condition and this is a good representative example of this scarce error

dated '16 DE 66'

This self-portrait shows Doherty smoking

much above average centring and large part original gum

The 1 shilling stamps feature a black and blue Wildebeest and the 2s6d stamps feature an Ox-wagon Inspanned