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Bidboard # 1935
Lot # 286
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $450.00
Current Bid: $210
Great Britain

Specialized Machin collection Part 1. MNH decimal Machins arranged by denomination, this first album covering 1/2p to 4 1/2p values and including misperf errors, missing phosphor error on the 4p and illegal Cornwall overprints on 1/2p. Pencil notations on album pages indicate that the original price paid was over £1069. A total of 800 stamps on 68 interleaved album pages. This extraordinary collection was assembled mostly from major dealers in the UK including Stanley Gibbons at full retail prices (at the time). Housed within a Stanley Gibbons padded album. Estimate =