Day 3 - Great Britain, British Colonies, Pre-Union South Africa - the Besançon Collection (Part Ii)

1860/72: 5 d. dark bluish green, wmk. '5', perf. 13½, a magnificent unused block of twenty (5 x 4) from the lower left corner of the sheet showing the decorative convolvulus pattern in the sheet margin at left, superbly centred and in a rich shade, a few precautionary hinges on large part slightly brownish original gum. A magnificent and unique multiple - the largest recorded with the pattern, ex collection Hutson.rnrn 
Catalogue 244: Europe & Overseas