Lot 31957 – 1854 Extensive study of the First Issue: 1/2a blue

1854 Extensive study of the First Issue: 1/2a blue, 1a red, 2a green and 4a blue & red, mounted on 113 album pages showing some unused but mostly used many with four margins including singles, pairs, strips & blocks, plus some covers, displayed in type order, with many illustrations of the different dies & stones for reference purposes, 1/2a blue with 257 singles, 9 pairs, strip of three, two strips of four & fourteen covers, 1a red with 200 singles, 16 pairs, four strips of three, four strips of four, one strip of five, three blocks of four & four covers, 2a green with 71 singles, two pairs, one strip of three & four covers, 4a blue & red with 158 singles, six pairs & one cover, mostly cut to shape, including some dramatic SHIFTED HEAD varieties, mixed to very fine, an amazing assembly for study (100s) (Est. € 15’000/20’000)