拍品 239
239
THE FOURPENCE BLACK
used 4d. black, used, Die B, even margins all round, left corner underinked, with trace of an obliteration; fine and extremely rare. R.P.S. Certificate (1953), number 39,004, not present, stated "that it is a genuine black impression and watermark, but there is no real evidence at present that any 4d. black stamp was issued for postal use". The Certificate stated that the stamp was "unused" but the traces of an obliteration are definitely present.

細節
used 4d. black, used, Die B, even margins all round, left corner underinked, with trace of an obliteration; fine and extremely rare. R.P.S. Certificate (1953), number 39,004, not present, stated "that it is a genuine black impression and watermark, but there is no real evidence at present that any 4d. black stamp was issued for postal use". The Certificate stated that the stamp was "unused" but the traces of an obliteration are definitely present.
來源
A Governor-General of South Africa
Roberts
Huston, 1961
Maria de la Queillerie, 1970
Sir Maxwell Joseph, 1982
出版
Williams No. IV

拍品專文

Note: Rather than set out again the various theories attached to this emission from Perkins, Bacon & Co., we refer readers of this catalogue to the article by L.N. Williams, published in Stamp Collecting during February of 1979, Vol. 132, Nos. 11 to 13 (3401-3). The emissions are in black and have a brownish tinge, they are on Anchor watermarked paper which is white, they usually bear traces of an obliteration which resembles the Cape isosceles triangle, and some tend to be underinked in the left corner.