Great Britain 1965 4d Lister Centenary error, SG667a

Great Britain 1965 4d Lister Centenary error, SG667aGreat Britain 1965 4d Centenary of Joseph Lister's Discovery of Antiseptic Surgery, (Ordinary) error, SG667a. A superb unmounted mint left hand marginal vertical pair with full original gum, with brown red (tube) omitted on the bottom stamp and a partial omission on the stamp above. Offered with an marginal pair of the normal stamp for comparison. A very rare and popular QEII stamp error. Pierron records only 18 mint examples. Stanley Gibbons

who Dickens based on local farmer John Brooker

the 20c stamps are much scarcer than the 10c denomination

A very fine and scarce interprovincial period usage (from 1 June 1910 - 31 August 1913)

The usage of these stamps was limited as the vast majority were returned to the UK and destroyed

The Campbell Paterson Catalogue value is $1

A signed postcard size colour photograph of F1 motor racing champion Ayrton Senna

sent as Prime Minister on December 24 1951

For his third machine

owned by the renowned scholar Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783 – 1848) who assembled one of England’s finest private collections of antiquities

with most surviving examples used for fiscal purposes rather than on cover

with even colour

which is common and still of very fine appearance