Great Britain 1840 1d intense black, plate 1a, SG1

Great Britain 1840 1d intense black, plate 1a, SG1Great Britain 1840 1d intense black, plate 1a, horizontal strip of four with four margins lettered 'FF FI', showing plate flaw double 'F', cancelled by four fine strikes of red Maltese Crosses, SG1. A fine and beautiful four margin strip attractively cancelled with the red Maltese Cross. An outstanding penny black multiple and extremely fine as rare in this quality. The first printing plate (plate 1a) of the penny black was put to press on 11 April

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Nauru 1916-23 2d orange

block of 20 (4x5) being the four left columns of the sheet with full margins

A unique Prince Harry signed menu on “ER” headed paper

I dare say nine out of every ten would say that they would not forgive Jarvis for what he has done

ruling in an authoritarian manner and denying anyone the right to disagree with him

generally along the valley of the Indus river

but was later re-established in 1815 by Francis I

The 1939 high value definitive issues of King George VI are very popular with collectors

Marc Bolan (1947-1977) was an English singer-songwriter

At just 26 years old

one of only 33 possible examples