An eagle-eyed collector in Singapore has spotted something that two dealers handling his stamps failed to spot, and that is a constant flaw on one stamp on this pane.
It might have been a fleck of paper, except that it appeared on all the panes in my stockbook. And it might have been on every Machin pane - except that it isn't any of the panes I have with the dark 5p stamp, and it isn't on any of the panes in the books I have, or the FDCs. But it is constant on at least 20 panes!
More next week when I will have had a chance to scan it.
Etchilhampton (Wiltshire) to Bath to Ryde, Isle of Wight, 1833
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The somewhat overwritten cover below was sent from Etchilhampton in
Wiltshire to Batheaston, and then redirected to Ryde on the Isle of Wight
in August 1...
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