Great Britain 1840 to 1939 stamps; a small box containing 19...

Hammer

£1,000

Great Britain 1840 to 1939 stamps; a small box containing 19 Stanley Gibbons investment items: 1840 1d Black (SG2) x2 both fine used with close to large 4 margins, one with crisp neat black MX the other with light red MX. 1840 1d Grey-black (SG3) superb used with large to enormous margins, very clear profile, variety "without ray flaws" and a prominent basal shift (ex "Mayflower"). 1840 2d Blue, Plate 1, very fine used good 4 margin with neat crisp red MX. 1912 1d scarlet fine mint block of 4 with top left hand example showing"No Cross on Crown" variety (SG350a); then a block of 6 mint B13 control. 1913 8d unmounted mint (SG390) and ditto mint with inverted watermark (SG390wi). 1913 9d fine mint block of 4 showing broken Dandy Roll "missing crown GvR watermark variety (SG392 var). 1914 8d bottom corner marginal D14 control strip of 3, unmounted mint (SG390). 1924 6d with inverted watermark, mint (SG426wi). 1924 ½dto 1/- fine unmounted set of 12 (SG418-429). 1924 British Empire Exhibition fine unmounted mint top right corner block of 4, one with "Tail to N of Exhibition" variety (SG430b). 1934 1d 2x bottom right corner blocks of 6 (SG440) one X/35 Cyl 44 no dot, the other X/35 Cyl 50 dot. 1934 1½d bottom left corner blocks of mint (SG441) all V/34 Cyl 98 dot, Cyl 100 dot, Cyl 101 no dot. 1939 10d superb unmounted bottom left corner marginal block of 6, Cyl 7 no dot (SG474). Total original SG price £4,355.