Lot# 3504 - Auction 298-307

1840: 2 d. blue, plate 2, lettered NJ, an unused example with large to very large margins all round, of wonderful rich colour, vertical crease, unused without gum. A rare and most attractive stamp, Certificate BPA   Gi DS8 = £ 45'000.rnReferencernE.D. Bacon, the line engraved postage stamps of GB (1920) illustrated on photoplate VIII.rnProvenance:part of the George Mackey block, Ventom, Bull and Cooper auction June 1898, bought by George Mackey and exhibited at the Birmingham Philatelic Exhibition in December 1898 and mentioned by Theodor Buhl in Phil. Rec. Jan 1899 as one of the rarities of the Birmingham Exhibition. "Amongst the rarities were Mr. Bernichons's two celebrated post office Mauritius from the Legrand collection and Mr. Mackey's celebrated block of eighty-four 2d blue Great Britain, without white lines, unused"rnAs a block of 35, HH/NLrnrnPuttick & Simpson 29/30 Oct 1901.rnRoyal Collection, Spink, 17 May 2001, lot 22rnCollection Vestey, Spink 9/9/2010, lot 200. BPA certificate will be delivered later.