Lot no. 10387

1922/2020, extensive unused and primarily mint never hinged collection, profoundly specialized with shades, varieties, coil leaders, ends and joins, gutter pairs, booklet pains and other specialist aspects. Beginning with the First Definitive Series with a fine mint never hinged set, values to 1s. with selvedge and a used 2s.6d. with watermark inverted there follow better coil stamps such as 1933, 1d. perf. 15 x imperf. (single perf., Hib. D2ci) and with watermark inverted (Hib. D2ci wa), 2d. in a vertical strip of twenty showing two coil-joins (Hib. DJ8) and various paste-up leaders, booklet panes including 1931, 6x ½ d. (Hib. HP 1) and 1931, 3x 1d. plus three labels with watermark inverted (Hib. HP 3wa), gutter pairs with 1941, Easter Rising 2 ½ d., block of 36 with four gutter pairs, or 1968, 5s. and 10s. (Hib. D49-50), many uncommon varieties including 1922, ½. d. “green dot right of sword” (D1c) or ”broken lattice" (D2e), 1 ½ d. “broken fraction bar” (D3b), 1941, overprinted 2d. with “snub-nosed e and malformed 1” (C17a/d), 1949 Republic with “dot over Chimney” (C34a), 1952, Moore 2 ½ d., block of four from cracked plate (C39b),1954, Marian Year, block of four, one showing „hand flaw“ (C45a) and finally more interesting Postage Dues with a marginal set of the 1924 issue as well as 1d., watermark inverted and reversed (PD2 wc); 2d. , wmk. inverted (Hib. PD3wa) and sideways left (Hib. PD3wd), 1 d. with variety “inverted Q for O” (Hib. PD2a), 1940, 1s. watermark sideways left (PD14 wd). A fascinating collection in mainly fine to very fine in nine volumes.