Great Britain 1840 1d Black Plate 5 cover, SG2 Airmail Stamps Uniting the House of Plantagenet's

Uniting the House of Plantagenet's rival houses

David Bellamy

Fiona Fullerton

It is a very fine and fresh unused pane of twenty lettered FE-JH with full selvedge and marginal inscription at top and bottom

roulettes on two sides

Great Britain 1840 1d Black Plate 5 cover, SG2 Airmail Stamps Uniting the House of Plantagenet'sGreat Britain 1840 1d Black Plate 5 cover, SG2. A huge four margin example lettered 'SL', neatly tied to a clean, fresh wrapper by a red Maltese Cross. Addressed to Carlisle with a London dispatch circular date stamp on reverse for 'OC. 1840.' An exceptional quality penny black cover. Pristine condition penny black covers with four large margins are scarce. A lovely example of the postal use of the worlds first postage stamp and the most important