Number of results: 18
1790
| Sale number: 15 1840 V.R. 1d. black CL, a fine unused example with good to large margins, shows unusual pre-printing paper crease at right. B.P.A. certificate (2000). S.G. V1, cat. £7,000. Photo. Price Realised £2200 |
2029
| Sale number: 16 1840 VR 1d. black LE fresh mint with good even margins and large part original gum, horizontal crease at base, otherwise fine. Brandon certificate (1981) S.G. V1, cat. £7,000. Photo. Price Realised £1400 |
2030
| Sale number: 16 1840 VR 1d. black MD fine with ample to good margins, used for cancellation removal experiment and showing residue of a red cancellation, rare. S.G. Spec. VR1, cat. £9,000. Photo. Price Realised £3200 |
2031
| Sale number: 16 1840 VR 1d. black TC fine with clear to ample to good margins, used for cancellation removal experiment and with trial red Maltese Cross officially removed, also showing part contemporary mss. on reverse. B.P.A. certificate (2003). S.G. Spec. VR1, cat. £9,000. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
2032
| Sale number: 16 1840 1d. black plate 3 BD with full margins on three sides, just shaved at top, tied by red Maltese Cross of Dublin on 'H.M.S.' entire letter from the Office of Ordnance to Moy, with toothed oval ''ORDNANCE/PAID/OFFICE'' handstamp additionally tieing the adhesive. The first 1d. black we have seen tied by an official handstamp and a most unusual Irish usage. If the issue of the VR had not been abandoned it would have been used on correspondence such as this. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
2033
| Sale number: 16 1840 1d. black plate 4 LD fine used with good margins and black Maltese Cross on 1841 (March 27th) 'O.H.M.S.' entire from Elgin to Inverness, a very scarce official usage of the 1d. black, had the VR 1d. black been adopted, it would have been used on this letter. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
2168
| Sale number: 17 1840 VR 1d. black KD, an unused example with good margins except just clipped at foot of ''K'' square, thin at left, otherwise fine and fresh. S.G. Spec. VR1, cat. £9,000. Photo. Price Realised £1100 |
3419
| Sale number: 41 1840 VR 1d. black NK, cancelled by the seven concentric circle obliterator showing an official attempt at removal and in condition commensurate with this, probably done by Rowland Hill or John Ledingham, and probably from the same sheet as stamps in the Royal and British Library collections, very rare. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
2322
| Sale number: 53 1840 VR 1d. black JJ, an unused example with clear margins, imperfections, small part original gum. S.G. V1, Spec. VR1, cat. £25,000. Photo. Price Realised £2200 |
386
| Sale number: 61 1840 VR 1d. black IB very fine unused, ample to good margins. Brandon certificate (2000). S.G. V1, cat. £28,000. Photo. Price Realised £4800 |
387
| Sale number: 61 1840 VR 1d. black SH (re-entry) used for cancellation removal trial, having a transparent coating (probably varnish or egg-white), cancelled in red ink which has been almost completely successfully removed in the course of the trial, fine with good margins and extremely rare. Ex Ferrary (and probably Rowland Hill and Judge Philbrick, see articles in the GB Journal vol. 47 no. 5 and vol. 48 no. 2 by Dr. John Horsey and Karl Louis FRPSL, respectively). S.G. Spec. VR1a (the only re-entry listed for this issue). Photo. Note, the adjacent stamp, SG, similarly treated was included in the Grosvenor auction of April 28th 1998 (lot 868). Price Realised UNSOLD |
713
| Sale number: 71 1840 VR 1d. black IK used for cancellation removal trial, having a transparent coating (probably varnish or egg-white), cancelled in red ink which has been almost completely successfully removed in the course of the trial, fine with small to good margins and extremely rare. Photo Price Realised £1600 |
263
| Sale number: 80 1840 VR 1d. black ?CJ forgery, being a genuine 1d. with the upper corners showing ''VR'' fraudulently inserted, unusual. Photo. Price Realised £300 |
554
| Sale number: 91 1840 V.R: 1d. black RK, a very fine and fresh unused example with traces of original gum, good to large even margins, shows a most unusual printing flaw on the Queen's neck, due to foreign matter on printing plate. S.G. VR1 var., cat. £32,000. Photo. Price Realised £2900 |
29
| Sale number: 100 1840 V.R: 1d. black AA, a very fine and fresh unused example with slight traces of original gum, close at base otherwise very large even margins, trivial surface imperfection at top. B.P.A. certificate (1989). S.G. Spec. VR1, cat. £32,000. Photo. Price Realised £7500 |
406
| Sale number: 106 1840 VR 1d. black BA, unused, close to large margins, crease and wrinkle, slight crease in margin at right, otherwise fine. S.G. Spec. VR1. Photo. Price Realised £4800 |
408
| Sale number: 121 1840 VR 1d. black OH, used with neat upright red Maltese Cross, very close at top (a trifle ragged), otherwise with good even margins, slightly soiled and with a few minor surface imperfections, otherwise a good example of this very rare stamp. R.P.S. certificate (1993). S.G. V1, cat. £35,000. Photo. Price Realised £7200 |
2091
| Sale number: 123 1840 VR 1d. black KD, an unused example with good margins except just clipped at foot of ''K'' square, thin at left, otherwise fine and fresh. S.G. Spec. VR1, cat. £32,000. Photo. Price Realised £4500 |
