Lot 30071 – 1872, 1/2 sen brown plate 1, full sheet of 40, brittle laid paper, unused

1872, 1/2 sen brown, plate 1, brittle laid paper, complete sheet of 40, featuring plate varieties in positions 11, 18, 20, 26 and 27, unused without gum and mounted to cardboard, small part of the sheet margin missing in upper and lower left corners. Tiny corner fault at top left and some separated perforations as it is the norm with this very fragile paper. Rare and very fresh. (JSCA ¥1,300,000).