Lot no. 304 •

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1d. black, plate 1A, TD, earliest impression showing practically no plate wear, unused with large part original gum, a very rare and exceptional early printing from plate 1A, B.P.A. certificate (1989) (S.G.Cat.: 24‘000)

Note: The stamp must have been printed soon after Plate 1 was registered, but certainly before April 27, 1840, because it shows not as much plate wear as the TD Imprimatur from the Second Imprimatur sheet!

Provenance: Sotheby’s, 11 – 12 May 1989, lot 3
Sir Gawaine Baillie Collection, Sotheby’s, 28 – 30 September 2005, lot 20
Alan Holyoake (‚Mayflower‘) International Grand-Prix Collection (2010)