c.1904 KEVII ½d Yellow-green and 1d P.T.P.O envelope st...

Hammer

£350

c.1904 KEVII ½d Yellow-green and 1d P.T.P.O envelope stamps, sheets of paper (each 454x303mm) with 48 embossed stamps arranged in four panes of twelve, the two upper and two lower panes tete-beche, one page of 1d stamps on white wove paper, two pages of ½d or 1d stamps on laid paper with "JOHN DICKINSON & Co" watermark. Also a further plain sheet of the Dickinson watermark laid paper, these four pages contained within a fifth sheet of Dickinson watermark laid paper which is embossed with a single KGV 3d P.T.P.O envelope stamp and is inscribed "folder D" and "Unused sheet of Edward VII ½d green embossed (48 stamps), unique, only sheet extant". The sheets folded vertically between panes not affecting any of the embossed stamps, the 1d wove paper sheet with a few very minor creases, otherwise fine and rare, the ½d sheet possibly unique. (5 pages).