GAMBIA 1880-81 4d pale brown, SG16B

GAMBIA 1880-81 4d pale brown, SG16BGambia 1880 81 4d pale brown, watermark CC (upright), COMB perforations from May 1881 third printing, right marginal horizontal pair with guide dot (R2 4 5), SG16B. A fine and fresh mint pair with large part original gum. Minor gum tones and right stamp with small thin spot, not detracting from lovely overall appearance. A very scarce positional multiple of a rare early Gambian stamp issue featuring an embossed portrait of Queen Victoria. The Stanley

signed in the opening months of UK Beatlemania

Overprinted 'SPECIMEN' type 9

square-topped shield over cross double-fourchée

it is fresh and well centred with part original gum

once residing in the collection of the famous and charismatic Scottish collector

John Ryan (1921-2009) was a British cartoonist who is most well known for creating the popular children's cartoon

Farthing Victoria 1863 Dot below lighthouse Choice Uncirculated and graded 85 by London Coins Grading Service and in their holder ALERT ME WHEN ANOTHER IS AVAILABLE >

Today he’s best known as the lead in the extraordinarily successful Peaky Blinders

The albino impression about 1mm above the printed

Brian Blessed

Sinatra was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985

dated February 5