Lot# 3555 - Auction 298-307

1841: 1 d. red-brown, plate 77, lettered BA, a used example, touched to fine margins, showing the "B Blank Error", with check letter "A"  missing, cancelled by numeral obliterator leaving the base of the stamp clear, minor thin and faint vertical crease. Just 26 examples recorded, some unavailable to collectors. An exceptional example of this rarity with the missing corner letter clear of the cancellation. Certificate RPSL (1987). Gi BS66a = £ 22'000.rnProvenance:rnCollection G.W.T.H Fleming, Robson Lowe, 12. Dec. 1962, lot 317 illustrated on the back cover,rnPhillips, 8. Dec 1988 lot 358.