Great Britain 1864 6d Lilac Plate 4, imprimatur, SG85var

Great Britain 1864 6d Lilac Plate 4, imprimatur, SG85varGreat Britain 1864 6d Lilac Plate 4 (With Hair Lines) imprimatur, SG85var. A very fine and fresh unused, with original gum, imperforate imprimatur lettered AI. Very rare, one of only 22 possible examples many of which are in institutional collections. The Stanley Gibbons GB Specialised Queen Victoria catalogue, last published in 2011, lists a value of 4,800. BUY NOW: Order online, by phone +44 (0)1534 639 998, or via email info@paulfrasercollectibles.

Very fine used block of four cancelled by Guernsey circular date stamps for JY

and the first in used condition we have ever handled in the past 20 years

John Garfield

dominating the sport through the 1990s and early 2000s

An interesting proving multiple of this attractive pictorial design featuring the native Cervus deer

They captured the imagination of the Victorians at the time and have remained ever-popular with collectors as they were ground-breaking at the time

and a major African rarity in this form

They were engraved and printed by Waterlow & Sons in the best intaglio style normally reserved for the highest GB stamp denominations

Lawrence during the Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule

Exceptionally fine and fresh unused original gum four margin vertical pair

watermark 12b

Provenance: Illustrated as Fig 3