Corinphila Auction 284-290 Day 2

1867 (April 18): 5 s. pale rose, Plate 1, wmk. Maltese Cross, lettered HA, imperforate, large margins all round, superb colour, minor wrinkles not affecting the appearance, large part og. slightly soiled but of great scarcity. The imperforate variety of this issue is paler than the imprimatur stamps and the imperforates are gummed, whilst the imprimaturs are ungummed. SG. No. 127a. = £ 15'000.rnProvenance: Robson Lowe Auction 19 Sept. 1956, lot 411 (offered as "variety imperforate"); Robson Lowe Auction 21 Nov. 1972, lot 385 (offered as "Imprimatur"); Phillips Auction 2 Nov. 1989, lot 169 (offered as "variety imperforate"); Collection G. Bloch, Christies 14 June 1995, lot 56 (offered as "Imprimatur"); Grosvenor 11/12 Nov. 2010, lot 870 (offered as "variety imperforate" and said to be "ex. Shaida").