CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 4

Recess from Perkins Bacon plates 1860/64: 2 d. deep vermilion, imperforate, wmk. Swan sideways, an unused example, marginal from right of sheet, showing variety "Pre-printing paper flaw" leaving a diagonal streak across the stamp, fresh and very fine for this rare shade, unused without gum.  A very rare stamp in this shade and believed unique with this variety. Cert. Dunkerley (2008) which states "only the fourth unused example I have seen in private hands and the only one with this variety" Gi = £ 1'900+.