GB 1840 SG2/7 Pl.4+9 Penny Black Very attractive Irish usage

Very attractive Irish usage

telegraphs and booklets are all listed

one of only 22 possible examples

- P201003908

1871-1935 1d Die proof of the first (Later rejected) die

GB 1840 SG2/7 Pl.4+9 Penny Black Very attractive Irish usage1840 41 1d Black Pl. 4 & 1d Red brown Pl. 9. Very fine matched pair of covers from the same Greenock correspondence addressed to London. The earlier prepaid by a four margin 1d black Pl. 4, tied by a crisp strike in red of the original Greenock MC, Greenock and London datestamps for AU. 19+21. 1840 on reverse. The later cover prepaid by a four margin 1d red brown Pl. 9 tied by a very fine strike of the Greenock distinctive MC in black. Greenock and