NORTH BORNEO 1931 SG300 Proof printer's sample of 50th Anniversary $1 with overprint in RED

Stock Code: P223015569

1931 50th Anniversary $1 "Badge", printer's sample in black and purple, imperforate and unpunched, with "WATERLOW & SONS LTD. / SPECIMEN" opt (type WS1) exceptionally IN RED, affixed to small piece from sample book with m/s "S.T. 1473" reference number above. A wonderful and quite extraordinary item, the first sample of this issue we have ever seen with RED overprint. [In our experience, across the entire Commonwealth, the typographed Waterlow sample overprints (Samuel types WS1, WS5 and WS6) were invariably applied in black, the only notable exception being the Southern Rhodesia 1924 2d black and blue sample, which is normal with type WS6 in red. The less used die-stamped "overprints" (Samuel types WS2/4), by contrast, were regularly in blue, or very occasionally in red (e.g. the New Zealand 1d Universal).]

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NORTH BORNEO 1931 SG300 Proof printer's sample of 50th Anniversary $1 with overprint in RED - $619.29*


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