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VALUABLE UNAUTHORISED STAMPS
(By Air Mail—From Our Own Co’ respondent)
LONDON, 29th October.
Stamp-collecting enthusiasts have found much interest in the Dorland Hall exhbiition. Not only are there many very important examples, but a Scottish doctor kindly lent his fine collection of forgeries. The piece de resistance of the exhibition, however,
is an official faux pas. When the Jubilee stamps were issued last year, three sheets of Prussian blue 2£d stamps, which were merely colour trials, and not intended for sale to the public at all, somehow got into a perforating machine by error. These three half-sheets were quite inadvertently issued from a small North London sub-office. Of these 360 Prussian blue “errors” 41 are believed to have gone to Australia on magazines,. But one alert and keen-eyed stamp collector noted the mistake, and promptly secured 319 of the unauthorised stamps. Sixteen months ago a halfsheet of these was bought for 12s 6d. It is now worth £5,000.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 12
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160WELL INVESTED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 12
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