Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas Americas (North, Central & South America) - Day 1

Second London Printing from new Perkins Bacon plates 1855 (May): 5 c. red-brown on blued paper, a used horizontal strip of six with good to huge margins showing parts of three niehgbouring stamps and small sheetmargin at right, neatly cancelled by four strikes of black target handstamp. Slight vertical crease between the second and third stamp and some staining on the sixth stamp not detracting from the interest of this fine and rare multiple. Cert. Alberto Diena (1952) and Holcombe (1994).