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

1840: 2 d. blue, plate 2, lettered DC, a used example with enormous even margins all round, in combination with 1841 1 d. red-brown on blued, plate 30, lettered MA-MB, horizontal pair, just shaved to fine, on 1843 cover from Hitchin to London all tied lightly by Maltese Crosses in black. A superb and most attractive cover. Certificate RSPL(1976).
Reference: Listed in Simpson Louis, GB Victoria mixed franking (2020) page 54.
Provenance: Stanley Gibbons, 8/9 Nov. 1973, lot 236; Harmer, 21. Nov. 1984, lot 1158; Sotheby's, 14. Jun. 1990, lot 344; Collection Vestey, Spink, 9. Sept. 2010, lot 195; Provenance: Collection 'Great Britain The Line Engraved Issus 1840–1870', The Åke Rietz Collection, Corinphila 7 June 2023.​​​​​​​