Great Britain 1867 10d pale red brown Plate 1, SG113 Books A rare and attractive trio

A rare and attractive trio of printer's proofs

A very fine used close to large four margin horizontal strip of four lettered OC-OF showing shifted transfer variety on OC

Some minor wrinkling as often seen with such large blocks

Script watermark upper right corner block of 4 showing plate number '2' and 'U12692' requisition number

upper left corner block of 4 showing '5732' sheet number

Great Britain 1867 10d pale red brown Plate 1, SG113 Books A rare and attractive trioGreat Britain 1867 10d pale red brown Plate 1, SG113. A very fine used left hand wing margin block of four lettered 'GI HJ', neatly cancelled by superb Bedford circular date stamps for 'OC. 2. 1872'. Lovely pale shade. A very fine and scarce positional multiple of this attractive Queen Victoria surface printed stamp. The 10d value was introduced for prepayment of postage to India, Mauritius and Australia via Marseilles. The rate was changed in 1870