Great Britain 1941-42 pale scarlet (pale colours, watermark sideways) imprimaturs, SG486a var Kuwait stamps Archbishop of Wales (1949 –

Archbishop of Wales (1949 – 57)

the 2½d Prussian blue remains one of the rarest and most famous stamps from Great Britain

without any of the usual creasing seen on such pieces

The Stanley Gibbons catalogue value is £700

Great Britain 1941-42 pale scarlet (pale colours, watermark sideways) imprimaturs, SG486a var Kuwait stamps Archbishop of Wales (1949 –Great Britain 1941 42 pale scarlet (pale colours, watermark sideways), SG486a var. A superb fresh unmounted mint, with full original gum, imperforate horizontal pair of imprimaturs with "BPMA" handstamp on reverse. Very scarce King George VI piece from the first approved printing sheet. Exceptional provenance as it was released from the British Postal Museum Archives in 2014. Prior to this it was stored in the museum archives in climate controlled