1921-33 $25 purple and blue/blue, Script wmk, lower marginal...

Hammer

£950

1921-33 $25 purple and blue/blue, Script wmk, lower marginal with PLATE NUMBER "2" (and co-extensive jubilee lines), from post-1926 printings in sheets of 50 (10x5), brilliant o.g. A rare proving example, with KGV head plate "2" (having plate slugs in top and bottom margins) used ONLY for the Straits Settlements $25, whereas head plate "1" (12x5, plate slugs in side margins) remained in use until 1937 for all the other colonies using this design. SG 240b, £1,500 Ex Champion