GIBRALTAR 1946 Victory ½d and 3d Specimens, SG132s/3s

GIBRALTAR 1946 Victory ½d and 3d Specimens, SG132s/3sGibraltar 1946 Victory d green and 3d ultramarine, perforated 'SPECIMEN' (type D21) and with additional red 'SPECIMEN' handstamp applied on receipt, without gum SG132s 3s. A little toned, but unique examples with the red 'SPECIMEN' handstamp. Provenance: Ex Kayfetz (Harmers 14 5 97, lot 784). The Victory stamps were issued in 1946 to celebrate the return to peace at the end of World War II. The designs feature a view of the Thames River in London,

many of which are tied up in institutional collections

A very fine lower marginal mint example with original gum

High-resolution photographs of the originals have been transformed into chromatographic prints

Christopher Cazenove

Pristine unmounted mint with full original gum right hand marginal block of four printed at Somerset House

A lobby card for Snoopy

fine framed "ship letter/guernsey" in red (Type S

with each horizontal pair neatly cancelled by 'SANDAKAN' circular date stamp

the four-time president of the Indian National Congress

for reasons unknown Murray was not part of Brown's crew when it took off on May 17

stating that the garment travelled the world with Michael Jackson on his tours as a solo artist

and probably spent a lot of time peering at the back of Beck's head whilst they were on the road