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Great Britain 1840 2d blue, plate 1, SG5
Great Britain 1840 2d blue, plate 1, SG5
Great Britain 1840 2d blue, plate 1, SG5

Great Britain 1840 2d blue, plate 1, SG5

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£3,500.00 - £3,500.00
£3,500.00
£3,500.00 - £3,500.00
£3,500.00
SKU JP5719

Great Britain 1840 2d blue, plate 1, horizontal strip of three, lettered 'SH-SJ', cancelled with black Maltese Crosses, SG5.

A very fine used strip of three with very large and regular margins all round, further benefiting from aesthetically pleasing central cancellations with neat black Maltese Crosses.

A stunning multiple in a perfect state of preservation. A very rare and beautiful early piece of British philately, rarely seen so fine.

Accompanied with a Karl-Albert Louis certificate of authenticity (2018).

Stanley Gibbons catalogue value for used pair of the 1840 2d blue is £2,200 and £22,000 for a block of four. There is no catalogue value for a strip of three.