Great Britain 1971 5p reddish-violet (Scotland, Two bands) imprimaturs, SGS20var

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Great Britain 1971 5p reddish-violet (Scotland, Two bands) imprimaturs, SGS20varGreat Britain 1971 5p reddish violet (Scotland, Two bands), SGS20var. A superb unmounted mint, with full original gum, left hand marginal horizontal pair of imperforate imprimaturs each with a "BPMA" handstamp on reverse. A scarce Queen Elizabeth II imperforate pair of imprimaturs. Exceptional provenance as they were released from the British Postal Museum Archives in 2014. Prior to this they were stored in the museum archives in climate controlled

tied by very fine strike of type Z5 'ZANZIBAR' squared circle

and features expected stamps and cancellation holes

lettered 'LA-MB'

Measures 10 x 8"

pellets above

The stamp caused controversy at the time because of its unusual shape and size

India 1926-33 2a purple

Pierron records only 50 mint pairs

Few documents have survived the 500+ years since Henry VII's reign and it is incredibly rare to find one in such good condition

Items inspected and endorsed by J

A rare early Indian States Government Official stamp as only 720 were originally printed

hard-nosed image was in sharp contrast to art-school rivals Blur