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GEMS OF THE 1840/41 ISSUES
1840, One Penny Black, plate 2.
1840, Two Pence Blue, plate 2.
Provenance: E. F. Zenker collection (1989) TES collection (1995)
Provenance: Mercurphila Auction (1984) Christies (1990)
Queen Victoria
1840, 2d. on Mulready 2d. Provenance: from the famous ‘John Coulston Esq., Lancaster’ correspondence find (1986) Hassan Shaida (1992)
1840, 1d. on Mulready 1d. Provenance: H.R. Harmer (Oct. 1966) R. Lowe auction (Dec. 1979) Spink (Dec. 1997)
GEMS OF THE 1840/41 ISSUES
1840, 2d. blue cancelled with WOTTON UNDER EDGE local Maltese Cross! Just two pairs and this strip recorded on the 2d. blue! Provenance: Stanely Gibbons Frankfurt auction (Oct. 1974) Atkinson (1990)
1840, V.R. One Penny Black. Prepared for use but not issued! Provenance: ‘Dublin Find’ (1899) Lord Crawford (1912) Charles Nissen (1913) Christies auction (March 1992)
1840, One Penny Black used on illustrated ‘Lady’s Envelope’. 1841, 2d. blue, mint block of four!
Provenance: Dr. Ambrose (1994)
Provenance: Robson Lowe auction (June 1972) Habsburg-Feldman auction (Dec. 1989)
1840, Mulready carricature published by Hume (No.2) used 28 May 1840, just 22 days since the Mulready envelopes were issued by the Post Office! Provenance: Stanley Gibbons auction (May 1985) Tito Giampocaro (1996)
A PROFUSION OF PENNY PINKS THE MICHAEL LOCKTON COLLECTION “......we shall be obliged to substitute some nother stamp for that designed by Mulready which is abused & ridiculed on all sides.” Rowland Hill (12 May 1840)
Majunga, Madagascar
1840, Whiting Essay.
The only recorded Penny Pink used to Aden! Not recorded in Karl Louis Card Index before!
Penny Pink showing pictorial advertisement for Benjamin Edgington, Tent Manufacturers. Provenance: Phillips auction (Sept. 1993)
Penny Pink used with 2 ½ d. block of four and 1864, 1d. red to Madagascar. Just two Penny Pinks recorded to Madagascar!
“Wyon-Whiting” trial for ‘printing & embossing production process’ on silk thread paper.
A PROFUSION OF PENNY PINKS THE MICHAEL LOCKTON COLLECTION “Penny Pinks” were issued just nine months later in February 1841 to replace the Mulreadys. The Embossed design with the head of Queen Victoria by William Wyon became iconic for British stamped paper for the following 60 years!
1860, Penny Pink used from France with Napoleon 40c. adhesive to Britain. Provenance: Christies auction (March 1996) Penny Pink with ‘Advertising Ring’ in squared format, used. Possibly unique.
One of two Penny Pinks recorded used to New Zealand, of which this is the only paid in cash. Provenance: Marcel Stanley (1988)
Hand illustrated Penny Pink by Harry Culshaw.
Penny Pink envelope addressed to the later Maximilian II Joseph, King of Bavaria 1848-1864.
1854, Penny Pink used with 1854, 1d. stars perforated and 1854, 6d. embossed on registered cover. One of two such frankings recorded in Karl Louis Card Index.
SYMPHONY IN BLUE THE BURKHART BEER COLLECTION A study of the Line-Engraved Two Pence Postage Stamps 1840–1879. Wellington, New Zealand
1841, 2d. blue trial plate of 12 without corner letters. Provenance: Dublin Find (1899)
1841, 2d. blue used on cover to New Zealand. Just ten 1841, 2d. blue frankings recorded to New Zealand.
1841, 2d. blue, plate 3, HH-HI pair overprinted SPECIMEN. 1858/79, 2d. plate 9, NI/PL block of twelve, vertical ‘J’ row in state 2 (1866 plate repair), vertical ‘K’ and ‘L’-row showing the rare final 1868 plate repair. Provenance: Sir John Dodd (1962) Robson Lowe auction (1974)
1858/79, 2d. blue, plate 15, corner marginal pair showing plate number ‘15’.
1841, 2d. blue, plate 3, strip of twelve, pair and single used with 1d.red on piece. Provenance: Robson Lowe auction (May 1958) Phillips auction (June 1984)
BRITISH POST OFFICES ABROAD THE DR ALAN BAUM COLLECTION “The British Post Office operated over large areas of every continent, and was probably at its greatest extent, geographically, in the first decade of adhesive stamps, 1840-1850.” Geoff Kellow (2016) Quebec
Egypt, PAID AT CAIRO C.C. , very late use in December 1863 and the only ‚6d.‘ rate recorded in Karl Louis Card Index.
Canada, PAID AT QUEBEC C.C., unusual ‚double strike‘ on entire to USA
1861, PAID AT DOMINICA C.C. on cover to London Provenance: Georg D. Mehrtens (2006) Port of Lagos
Spain – Canary Islands, PAID AT TENERIFFE C.C., 1853, February, earliest recorded date and one of the few usages not in combination with spanish adhesives. Provenance: Andre Bollen (1983) The peak from Teneriffe
1872, PAID AT LAGOS C.C. on July 1872 cover to Manchester. In use for less than eight month only.
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