Great Britain 1840 1d Grey black Plate 1a. SG3 Tristan da Cunha stamps cross-country night flights and low-level

cross-country night flights and low-level flights over water

type M4 'MAFIA' handstamp in green

PETER OOSTERHUIS

A unique document

Great Britain 1840 1d Grey black Plate 1a. SG3 Tristan da Cunha stamps cross-country night flights and low-levelGreat Britain 1840 1d Grey black Plate 1a, SG3. Very fine used large four margin horizontal pair lettered LE LF showing moderate plate wear, neatly cancelled by red Maltese Crosses. A scarce and attractive multiple of the first printing plate of the world's first stamp. Plate 1 of the 1d black was first registered on 15 April 1840. As the plate had not been hardened it soon showed signs of wear. Consequently, a second sheet is recorded as having been