Great Britain 1934 1½d "Photogravure" essay, SG441var

Great Britain 1934 1½d "Photogravure" essay, SG441varGreat Britain 1934 1d "Photogravure" essay, SG441var. A very fine vertical pair of perforated essays printed by Harrison & Sons on "Harrison" script gummed watermarked paper, mounted on a small piece of cream card. Printed in green and using the 3 4 portrait design (Type F) from a photograph by W. D. Downey. A very attractive and rare unadopted essay. This series of essays are presently unlisted but are to be included in the next Stanley Gibbons

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Accompanied with a Royal Philatelic Society (RPS) certificate of authenticity (1968)

Medieval ship with Royal Arms on cross mast

and featured hand embroidery

he founded the Tudor dynasty

An important New Zealand early pictorial stamp issue with Mount Cook holding deep spiritual significance and home to New Zealand's tallest mountain and longest glacier

The stamp is the only definitive stamp ever to incorporate Braille embossed dots – not so much help to the blind or partially sighted to identify the stamp but as a further deterrent to the would-be counterfeiter

The set list shows clear use

comprising a metal food bowl

Its primitive charm has resulted in it always being highly treasured by collectors

Sent from London to Tetbury

A rare modern Commonwealth stamp error