Los-Nr. 1529

1882, £5 orange on blued paper, AA, handstamped "SPECIMEN", type 9, very good colour, mostly very good perforations, unused with part original gum with various paper residues, a few shortened perfs at upper right and one short perf at lower right, otherwise in fine and fresh quality. Certificate Louis BPP (2025)

Provenance: 2025, re-discovered from a recent find near Frankfurt, Main (Germany) in a printed “All World” stamp album, assembled by a stamp collector around 1900.