Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

1841: 2 d. blue, plate 3, State 1, lettered LE-LF, an unused horizontal pair, close to large margins all round, showing the corrosion of the plate damage to the Queen's eyebrow on stamp LE and the corrosion blemish especially in the NW corner square of stamp LF, prior to the re-entries being carried out. The pair of fresh colour, large part original gum, few gum creases. Extremely rare, certificate BPA (2017) Gi ES11(ea/eb) = £ 12'000+.
Provenance: As strip of four LC-LF; Christies 14. Nov 1993; Collection 'Great Britain The Line Engraved Issus 1840–1870', The Åke Rietz Collection, Corinphila 7 June 2023.