Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1874-78 First Sideface Issue. Original perf 121⁄2 issue, specialised group written up on five pages with 1d (12, a single and block of four mint), 2d (6), 3d (3, one mint), 4d (3, one mint), 6d (6, one on a front) and 1/- (5). Includes an apparently imperforate 6d, a 6d on a front showing a fault in the perforating machine resulting in an area of missed perforations on both vertical sides, inverted watermarks on the 1d, 2d, 6d and 1/-, etc. S.G. 152/7, £2,350. (35).
Suggested price: £ 450-550