PAPUA 1901 SG15a Mint digital-edition and ¨®£1 each show a

and ¨®£1 each show a distinctive broken top to 'S' of 'SPECIMEN'

(SG 40) lettered QI

1883 with a Plymouth cds for SP

Very fine used good to large four margin example lettered JA

a few blunt perfs at right nevertheless a presentable example from this very scarce overseas office

PAPUA 1901 SG15a Mint digital-edition and ¨®£1 each show a1901 05 1s black and orange, thin paper, wmk vertical (comb perf), from June 1905 printing which was mostly overprinted in Brisbane (to provide SG 44b), brilliant o. g. with barest trace of hingeing (if at all). Typical centring and a trivial gum wrinkle, mentioned for accuracy, still a very fine example of this extremely scarce stamp. Only 205 existed without opt (175 sold in London, plus one sheet of 30 preserved in the DLR archives). P212015249