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Lot# 6524 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 6524 Great Britain

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    1848, Henry Archer Perforation Machine, Plain Paper Trial, comb perforation 16, block of fifty four, nine by six, believed to be Columns D to L, which if correct gives part margin lower right of two being cut to side; there are only five examples recorded, of which two examples are held in private hands; a block of twenty four and this example, both which derive from the same side of the original Wilkinson punch set as the example in the Royal Collection, there being a supporting letter from Sir John Marriott, Keeper of the Royal Collection -1969 to 1995, verifying its association to the example in the Royal Collection, this example, apart from the complete sheet in the German Postal Museum Archive, is the largest remaining example from the early trials of Archer's machine, it coming from the opposite side of the comb used for the sheet in Bonn, some stains, slight tone marks, with small blue ink mark, otherwise fine. An important piece. Cert. D. B. Escott (2014). rnProvenance: Stanley Gibbons, 8-9 March 1973, lot 214; Ex. Tes Collection, Christies, 5 October 1995, lot 588; Christies 18 June 1996, lot 172. rn                    rn           rn 
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,400 CHF