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Auction: 7027 - The Half Lengths of Victoria 1850-59 - The Gary Diffen Collection
Lot: 289

x Printed by Messrs. Campbell & Fergusson 1d. Seventh Printing - Stone 2 - S.G. 26, 26a, 26b The new postal act introduced on the 1st May 1854 greatly increased the use of postage stamps with the compulsory pre-payment of postage with stamps on the 1st January 1855. On the 6th May 1854, the Postmaster General requested that a further 4,000,000 1d. and 2,000,000 3d. stamps be prepared immediately. A tender from Messrs. Campbell and Fergusson was accepted on the 11th May 1854. One "master" intermediate stone of 24 (four rows of six) from which transfers were laid down on mew stones to produce a single printing stone of 400 impressions in two panes of 200. 1d. brown [7], a superb unused example with part original gum and showing sheet margin at left; some gum thinning at top. The finest of the eight recorded unused examples. RPSV Certificate (2000). S.G. 26 Estimate £ 1,000-1,200

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