360 / Mai 2015 London

1848, early impression 2 d. blue, nice deep fresh colour and good to wide even margins, cancelled by superb central strike of black target cancel; an extremely fine and exceptional beautifull copy of this rare stamp; certificate Holcombe (1982)

Worn impression 2d. blue on bluish, good to wide even margins and nice fresh colour, cancelled by central target; very fine and scarce; certificate Holcombe (1983).

1859, Dardenne 2d. blue, horizontal pair with interesting printing flaw in chignon of top stamp, nice deep colour and large even margins, each copy with clear target cancel; an extremely fine pair, certificate Holcombe (1993)   Provenance: Kanai (D.Feldman 1993)

1858: Britannia (4 d.) green imperforate, ample to large margins all round, tied to 1859 entire letter endorsed 'via Marseilles' to Genoa, Italy by circular target handstamp in black. Manuscript 'Short Paid 8d.' alongside adhesive and reverse with Crown 'Mauritius / GPO' datestamp of despatch (June 20), single ring 'Malta' transit cds (July 17) and Paris arrival (July 21), where charged '10' décimes due in manuscript. A rare and most unusual entire. Cert. BPA (1995).