Auction 250 - 256 Day 2

1918 (July): 'War Stamp' in black on 1½ d. orange, an unused horizontal pair on watermarked Multiple Crown CA paper, large margins all round, one or two minor bends not affecting appearance, unmounted og. Extremely rare - just six examples were produced thus for an Official at De La Rue, thus one of three known pairs: one of which, also with small creases (illustrated in "War Tax Stamps" by John G.M. Davis on page 45), was in the Frederick Mayer collection. Rare.