Lot 61168 – 1919 Hawker Air Post 3c brown, mint o.g., lightly hinged

1919 Hawker Air Post 3c brown, mint o.g., lightly hinged, exceptionally well-centred especially since most of the other examples are centred slightly to top, fresh colour, signed on the reverse “J.A.R” (St. John’s Postmaster J. A. Robinson) extremely fine and very rare, with no more than 87 unused examples that can possibly exist though the actual number of surviving copies is probably much lower, and this being one of the finest we have encountered, cert. BPA (1989) (S.G. £22’000, Scott $25’000, Unitrade C$40’000).

Note: Postmaster J. A. Robinson of St. John’s overprinted 200 stamps for the special flight; of these 95 were used and 18 were defective and subsequently destroyed.