Friday March 29, 2024
 

£132.50

D11 1924-31 George V 1d Aniline Scarlet Watermark Block Cypher Postage Due in very fine used condition with part dated CDS cancellation.

A fascinating stamp and listed here quite deliberately as scarlet rather than the carmine the catalogues will tell us was the shade employed.

An obviously unlisted and equally very scarce shade. As my interest and understanding of shades has led logically over the years to the postage dues issues where many can be told apart now by shades rather than the subsequent confirmation of watermarks.

This stamp is only the second D11 I have with this aniline ink, although some carmine shades also exist with fluorescent ink as we see on some of the Edward VII issues, worth checking under long wave UV.

  • Model: D11-004