PITCAIRN ISLANDS 1985 Paintings $2 error, SG267var

PITCAIRN ISLANDS 1985 Paintings $2 error, SG267varPitcairn Islands 1985 Paintings $2, showing the '1835' for '1825' error of inscription, SG267var. A Post Office fresh unmounted mint example with full original gum. A quite extraordinary and sought after error. (See footnote after SG267 in Stanley Gibbons Eastern Pacific sectional catalogue). ALERT ME WHEN ANOTHER IS AVAILABLE > SELL ONE OF THESE >

The Stanley Gibbons catalogue value is £364+

These were stored in the Waterlow basement during the war and were damaged by water

type 12 from R4/3 of the setting

If only these walls could talk

but two bold signatures

The 96c olive-bistre had a very short life

type D1 overprint at top of stamp

A most attractive example of this fine Queen Victorian Official stamp

Uganda 1981 Royal Wedding

Measures 480x550mm and has been professionally mounted and framed together with reproduction portrait of Nelson

Watermark CA

Pristine unused original gum half sheet of twenty printed by De La Rue complete with full sheet margin