Lot# 9004 - Auction 274-283

Recess by Perkins Bacon on blued paper 1857 (April 1): 6 d. purple-brown on blued paper, wmk. Star, imperforate, a used horizontal strip of three in a rich shade, good to large margins all round, neatly cancelled by grid obliterators in black. An exceptional multiple, the largest recorded strip known is two rejoined strips of three (ex Hackmey, sale 1, lot 20). Exceptional and of great rarity. Cert. RPSL (1956).rnrnProvenance: Collection J.H.G. Galbraith, Stanley Gibbons by Private Treaty, London, 1989.