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1967 EFTA 9d (ord). Listed variety "Quay flaw". SG Spec. W111h.
Unmounted mint strip of three with "Quay flaw" variety, from R 8/3. Appears as a black protuberance beneath ships hull between trucks.
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1972 BBC 3p. SHIFT OF YELLOW & SLATE. SG 909 var.
Unmounted mint single with downward shift of yellow (terminals) and slate (Queen's head). As illustrated with normal at right. Stoneham Cat. C321b
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1981 Butterflies 18p. Shift of gold. SG 1152 var.
UM single with the largest of the gold shifts ( 5mm to right) on this value. Queen's head now touches butterfly's wing Illustrated and supplied with normal at r...
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1968 Paintings 1/9. PERFORATION SHIFT. SG 774 var.
UM lower right corner single with 4mm upward shift of horizontal perforations. Results in inscription and lower part of design now appearing at top of stamp. Illustrated ...
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1959 2/6 De La Rue. The Classic OFFSET variety. SG 595 var.
UM marginal single with complete reverse image printed on gummed side.
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1991 Scientific Achievements 22p. PERFORATION SHIFT. SG 1546 var.
Unmounted mint single with shift of vertical perforations to right. Results in Queen's head and value being bisected. Illustrated and supplied with normal at right.
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1966 World Cup 6d (ord). MISSING BLACK. SG 694a.
Fine unmounted mint single with error MISSING BLACK. Illustrated and supplied with normal at right.
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1984 Christmas 22p. BROWNISH GREY SHIFT. SG 1269 var.
Unmounted mint single with 6mm downward shift of brownish grey. Results in Queen's head and value appearing at centre right rather than top right corner of design. I...
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1994 Channel Tunnel 41p. MULTIPLE COLOUR SHIFTS plus PERF SHIFT. SG 1822/23 var.
Unmounted mint positional right marginal se-tenant pair with multiple colours (bright orange, scarlet, new blue and emerald) shifted left to varying degree with bright or...
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1966 Birds (ord) MISSING BRIGHT BLUE. SG 696/697g.
An unmounted mint marginal se-tenant positional block of four with MISSING BRIGHT BLUE. Illustrated and supplied with matching normal block below
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1984 British Cattle 16p. PERFORATION SHIFT. SG 1240 var.
Unmounted mint marginal single with SHIFT OF HORIZONTAL PERFORATIONS. Illustrated and supplied with normal at right.
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1970 Philympia 5d. SHIFT OF GREY BLACK to right. SG 835 var
Fine unmounted mint single with shift of grey black to right. Shift results in "three margin 1d Black". As illustrated and supplied with normal at right.
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1967 Christmas 1/6. SHIFT OF GOLD. SG 758 var
A fine unmounted mint corner marginal single with very visual SHIFT OF GOLD TO LEFT (Queen's head, value inscription). There is also a SHIFT OF PHOSPHOR. This resu...
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1967 Christmas 1/6. SHIFT OF GOLD. SG 758 var
A fine unmounted mint marginal single with very visual SHIFT OF GOLD TO LEFT (Queen's head, value inscription). There is also a SHIFT OF PHOSPHOR. This results in ...
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1964 FRB 6d (phos). Dramatic Paperfold error and Phosphor error. SG 660p var.
A fine unmounted mint traffic light block of ten. PHOSPHOR OMITTED from front of most of lower six stamps due to a PAPER FOLD before the application of phosphor. The miss...
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1967 Christmas 3d MISSING GOLD Col. 1. MISSING VALUE ONLY Col.2. David Brandon Certificate
Unmounted mint cylinder block of four with MISSING GOLD (Queen's head and value) both stamps col. 1. MISSING GOLD (Value only) both stamps col. 2. Unique positional ...
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1967 Christmas 4d MISSING GOLD (Head & Value) / MISSING VALUE ONLY David Brandon Certificate. SG 757b
Unmounted mint pair (folded along perfs) with MISSING GOLD (Queen's head and value) left hand stamp and MISSING VALUE ONLY on right hand stamp. Slight blunting of pe...
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SG 770y. 1968 Anniversaries 1/9. Missing Phosphor.
UM single MISSING PHOSPHOR.
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1966 Birds (phos) MISSING EMERALD GREEN . SG 696-698pf
An unmounted mint marginal se-tenant block of four with MISSING EMERALD GREEN. (affects water under gull, grub in blue tit's beak and robin's branch). Illustrat...
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1969 Christmas 5d. MISSING GREEN. SG 813d
Unmounted mint single with MISSING GREEN (border and middle shepherd's tunic). Illustrated with normal at right.
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1966 Christmas 3d (phos). ERROR PAIR WITH AND WITHOUT PHOSPHOR BAND. SG Spec. WP109ac
A fine unmounted mint upper right corner block of eight. Four se-tenant pairs. Each pair left stamp with ONE BROAD PHOSPHOR BAND, right stamp NO PHOSPHOR BAND.
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1965 Battle of Britain 9d (phos). TWO DIAGONAL BROAD BANDS ERROR.
A fine unmounted mint marginal block of four with very attractive phosphor band error. Each stamp with two broad diagonal bands plus diagonal band in left margin. Positio...
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1965 Battle of Britain 4d (phos).PHOSPHOR BANDS PRINTED ON GUMMED SIDE
A fine unmounted mint se-tenant block with phosphor bands printed on gummed side as well as front. Affects all stamps in block. Good reaction of bands on gummed side to U...
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1967 Discovery & Invention. UM marginal single WATERMARK INVERTED. SG 754Wi.
1967 Discovery & Invention. UM left marginal single WATERMARK INVERTED. SG 754Wi.
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1970 Anniversaries 9d. MISSING OCHRE. SG 820a
Unmounted mint single MISSING OCHRE (bed sheet, table, crutches). Illustrated and supplied with normal at right.
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1965 Lister 4d (ord). Dramatic DRY PRINT of brown-red. SG 6677 var
Unmounted mint single with dramatic DRY PRINT of red brown leaving tubing virtually omitted. Illustrated with normal at right.
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1980 London Landmarks 17½p. Virtually MISSING SILVER. SG 1124a var
Unmounted mint single with almost complete omission of silver. Illustrated with normal at right.
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2003 British Museum 2nd class. SHORT PHOSPHOR BAND Cylinder block.
Unmounted mint cylinder block of six. Both stamps in bottom row with phosphor band 4mm sort at bottom of stamp.
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1969 Investiture 1/-. Error BROAD BAND RIGHT. SG Spec. W169b
A fine unmounted mint single with BROAD PHOSPHOR BAND RIGHT (very slightly diagonal but not the listed diagonal band variety SG Spec. W169c)
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1965 Battle of Britain 9d (ord) UM Cylinder block of four. WATERMARK INVERTED. SG 677Wi.
1965 Battle of Britain 9d (ord) Fine unmounted mint cylinder block of four WATERMARK INVERTED. SG 677Wi. Very scarce blck. "Woodstock" suggests no more 4 known
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1966 Battle of Hastings 1/3 (phos) UM cylinder block. WATERMARK SIDEWAYS INVERTED SG 712pWi.
1966 Battle of Hastings 1/3 (phos) Fine unmounted mint cylinder block. WATERMARK SIDEWAYS INVERTED (crowns point to right when viewed from back). SG 712pWi. As illu...
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1994 Christmas 19p. IMPERFORATE PAIR. SG 1843a
1994 Christmas COMPLETELY IMPERFORATE HORIZONTAL pair. As illustrated.
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2002 Christrmas 2nd. IPMERFORATE GUTTER PAIR. SG 2321b
2002 Christrmas 2nd. IPMERFORATE GUTTER PAIR. SG 2321b
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1962 NPY 2½d Imperf pair plus green omited. Unused,
An unused horizontal pair IMPERFORATE with MYRTLE GREEN COLOUR OMITTED. Overprinted with horizontal black bars. Materil that should have been destroyed by printers. Wrink...
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1969 Ships 5d. SHIFT OF RED. Positional pair. SG 778 var
1969 Ships 5d with SHIFT OF RED DOWNWARDS (Cunard logo). Attractive positional pair. Illustrated and supplied with normal pair. Image close ups at each level with normal ...
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1969 Ships 5d. SHIFT OF RED. Attractive progressive strip. SG 778 var
1969 Ships 5d with SHIFT OF RED DOWNWARDS (Cunard logo). Attractive unmounted mint vertical strip of five. Shift pronounced on upper 4 stamps with image close ups at ...
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1970 Philympia 5d. SHIFT OF GREY BLACK to right. SG 835 var
Fine unmounted mint single with shift of grey black to right. Shift results in "three margin 1d Black". As illustrated and supplied with normal at right.
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1970 Cottages 1/6. SHIFT OF LILAC upward. SG 818 var.
Fine unmounted mint single with UPWARD SHIFT OF LILAC. At a first glance easy to miss but on inspection and with normal comparison quite marked effects can be seen, esp...
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1969 Anniversaries 1/6. SHIFT OF GREEN UPWARD. SG 794 var
Unmounted mint single with upward SHIFT OF GREEN (Portuguese and Italian flags). Illustrated with normal at right.
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1973 Christmas 3½p. (PVA) SHIFT OF RED BROWN TO RIGHT. SG 948 var
UM single with shift of brown to right. Affects multiple elements of design including figure at left, King's stool and lectern, ornament held by figure at right, log...
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