;) ;) | 1916 heavily underlined GI with partial stop between N and I of VIRGIN ISLANDS on 1d carmine WAR STAMP (SG.78), fresh u/m, only three examples recorded to date. War Tax specialist John Cranmer has a positional multiple from top left pane (without Plate number) showing the variety Row 3/5. This prominent variety NOT listed in the newly published War Tax Stamps of the British Empire by John G.M. Davis. £125 |
;) | VIRGIN ISLANDS stamp: 1899 ½d with inverted "L" in HALFPENNY (SG.48b), m.m., gum toning. £28 |
;) ;) | VIRGIN ISLANDS ..... Ex HOPKINS long tailed "S" on 1/- black & rose-carmine/greyish (SG.20a, Cat.£2000), fine mint with full extended margin from sheet position 11. Ex Adrian HOPKINS (1936 RPS certificate). Robson Lowe encyclopaedia Page 169 considers the sheets perforated outside the border to be an experimental printing limited to 25 to 50 sheets. All examples being rare. £1200 |
;) ;) | 1916 heavily underlined GI with partial stop between N and I of VIRGIN ISLANDS on 1d carmine WAR STAMP (SG.78), fresh u/m, only three examples recorded to date. War Tax specialist John Cranmer has a positional multiple from top left pane (without Plate number) showing the variety Row 3/5. This prominent variety NOT listed in the newly published War Tax Stamps of the British Empire by John G.M. Davis. £125 |
;) | VIRGIN ISLANDS stamps: VERTICAL DOUBLE PERFORATIONS on pair 1887-89 1d rose CA (SG.34), fresh m.m. £120 |
;) | 1884 QV 2½d (SG.31w) CA INVERTED wmk, fine m.m. £85 |