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November 27, 2012 - LONDONPlate 483 8485 8683 BB, good to large margins, large part original gum, gum bend and trace of thin. Goodcolour and attractive. S.G. 13/15. Photo £800-1,00084 BF, good to large margins, unused; fresh appearance. S.G. 13/15. Photo £400-50085 HD “violet-blue”, thicker lavender tinted paper, huge margins and showing portions ofthree adjoining stamps and a trace of a fourth at upper left, London cancellation, very fineand an extraordinary stamp. Specialised ES16, £1,800. Photo £2,000-2,50086 HK “violet-blue”, marked ivory head with slight sign of lavender tint, large margins, fineused. Specialised ES17, £400. Photo £100-150Cancellations87 Numbers in Maltese Cross: Numbers 1 to 12, mostly four margined examples, strikes andcondition mixed. Specialised £10,650 £1,000-1,20088 Collection of twenty-six, including distinctive Maltese Cross cancellations with Belfast,Dublin and York, 1844 type in blue, also a small group of imperf. and perf. 1d., chieflyfine £400-5001841 (MAY), TRIAL ON DICKINSON SILK THREAD PAPER8989 P Plate 11: 1d. full deep red, OK, good to large margins, an exceptionally fresh example.R.P.S. Certificate (1990). Specialised DP22, £7,500. Photo £2,500-3,000Following the trial printing of the 2d. value, this trial was conducted on the Dickinsonsecurity paper. The first and last vertical columns of the sheet do not have the silk threads. Theink used blued the paper quite deeply. Eight sheets were printed, six of these on gummed paper;however, only examples from the two sheets on ungummed paper have been seen. This paperwas not considered to be as safe as the watermarked paper.13