Lot# 7046 - Auction 321-332

1840: 2 d. blue in a horizontal block of six from plate 1 lettered DI-DJ-DK / EI-EJ-EK, DJ state 2 with re-entry (DS5i) and EK with 'double letter K' variety (DS5j), a fresh and fine multiple, EJ with minor surface rub in the upper left network restored, large to huge margins all round, cancelled with Maltese Crosses in red. The second largest multiple incorporating DJ state 2 re-entry recorded in the Louis files, an attractive and desirable item, cert. Louis (2019).rnProvenance: A. H. Whelan collection, Robson Lowe sale (Nov. 1954), lot 236, at that time still on dated piece with EXETER cds alongside; Briefmarkenhaus Merkur sale Frankfurt (1971), lot 2767, off piece.