David Feldman Great Britain & British Empire December 13 2019

155 Geneva, December 13, 2019 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° (SG) Estimate ( £ ) 50632 C P D4var 1914 2d Postage due set of 19 colour trials, mint og, in carmine, claret, magenta, scarlet, red brown, Bartolozzi-brown, fawn, umber, bronze green, blue-green, faience green, agate (as issued), mauve, violet, azure blue, royal blue, orange, blue and Russian green, very fine and attractive set 400 - 600 50634 50633 50633 P D18 1923 2s6d Postage due colour trial (4th series - 21st Jan 1924) imperforate irregular block of three printed on gummed, wove unwatermarked tinted paper mounted on brown card annotated with the official colour description “Lemon / Purple / S.D.I”, a spectacular and unique showpiece Note: A series of 24 different colour trials were produced at Somerset House from a specially made Royal Mint plate of four impressions of the 1/2d die, this is from the fourth series of six in purple on different yellow tinted papers. In the place of the missing 4th stamp can be seen a manuscript annotation “To HM” (His Majesty) and now resides in the Royal Philatelic Collection 2’000 - 3’000 50634 P D18 var 1923 2s6d Postage due colour trial (3rd series - 6th Dec 1923) imperforate irregular block of three printed on gummed, wove unwatermarked paper mounted on brown card annotated with the official colour description “Pansy Lake S+P116”, a spectacular and unique showpiece Note: A series of 24 different colour trials were produced at Somerset House from a specially made Royal Mint plate of four impressions of the 1/2d die, this is from the third series of six in different shades of red, purple and mauve. In the place of the missing 4th stamp can be seen a manuscript annotation “To HM” (His Majesty) and now resides in the Royal Philatelic Collection 2’000 - 3’000 50635 CC P / 154 D25 1936 1s Postage Due imperforate imprimatur in mint nh top marginal block of four with “NPM IMPRIMATUR” handstamps on reverse, very fine and very rare, this multiple contains four of the six examples released from the NPM archive sale 1’000 - 1’500 50636 CC P / 154 D68 1963 £1 Black on yellow mint nh imperforate imprimatur with “NPM IMPRIMATUR” handstamp on reverse, very fine and very rare, ex NPM Archive 300 - 400