Great Britain 1840 1d black, Plate 11, SG2 Music Great Britain 1935 Silver Jubilee

Great Britain 1935 Silver Jubilee 2½d Prussian Blue

Rarely ever seen so fine

This is a very rare multiple and the only block of twenty we have ever seen for this issue

Ann Ralston James lived out the rest of her days on the James family farm

Gandhi was deeply opposed to splitting the sub-continent along religious lines

Great Britain 1840 1d black, Plate 11, SG2 Music Great Britain 1935 Silver JubileeGreat Britain 1840 1d black, Plate 11, SG2. A very fine used example with four good to large margins lettered HE, in the characteristic greyish black shade, cancelled by a black Maltese Cross. A good quality example of the holy grail of penny black collecting, the elusive last printing plate. Only 168,000 were printed from this plate, representing a mere fraction of the total number of penny blacks printed of 68 million. Very few have survived from