Great Britain 1867 2d Paris Exhibition Proof Plate 9, SGDP49b

Great Britain 1867 2d Paris Exhibition Proof Plate 9, SGDP49bGreat Britain 1867 2d Paris Exhibition Proof Plate 9, SGDP49b Ex. Royal Collection A rare and prestigious exhibition proof with royal provenance. A superb four margin imperforate example, lettered 'DL', printed in blue on soft white card. Produced for display at the 1867 Paris Exhibition, this proof comes from the only sheet of 240 ever printed, making it extremely scarce. Proof sheets were taken from the 2d blue plate 9 on soft white card

"in Special system

000 for a mint example

each proof handstamped 'CANCELLED' in RED and numbered below

000 on $20 red-brown block of four used by native circular date stamp

Walter Raleigh

along with an excellent headshot of Eisenhower in his military uniform

The surface printed stamps of Great Britain cover a lengthy period of production yet include some of Britain’s rarest stamps

Only a limited number of privately owned documents have survived the 470+ years since Henry VIII's reign and documents of this quality are exceptionally rare

Featured in "The World's First Postage Stamp" book by Alan Holyoake published by the Royal Philatelic Society in 2013

Stronger by weakness

China Sinkiang 1924-26 Second Peking printing $1 sepia and brown orange to $20 blue and plum

other than a couple of faintly toned perforations