A fresh and fine example of this 5/- combination booklet from the 1951-1952 King George VI new colours issue with the mixed upright and inverted GVIR watermarks. The contents have the following characteristics:
Paper type: Vertical cream wove paper, watermarked upright and inverted GVIR watermark.
Printing method: Photogravure
Rate page features: July 1952 date printed in lower right corner.
Printer: Harrison and Sons
Perforation or die cut: 15 x 14 comb (Type I)
Stamp colours: 1/2d pale orange, 1d pale ultramarine, and 1.5d pale green and 2.5d pale scarlet.
Gum Type: smooth cream coloured gum Arabic (dextrine gum) with a satin sheen
The covers display the following characteristics:
Cover fluorescence: Dull fluorescent on front and back
Cover seal type: unsealed
Cover design: Type A GPO cypher
Cover binding type: stitched with black thread
Interleaving inside? No
Cover Colours: brownish buff with black writing
Counting mark on cover?: Yes
The Gibbons catalogue value for a F-65 mint example of this booklet is £55. This translates to $93.50. The booklet offered here grades F-70 as follows:
Cover freshness: 10/10
Centering of the panes: 40/70 (average of both panes)
Condition of cover edges: 5/5
Freshness of the panes: 5/5
Absence of visible cover flaws or stains: 5/5
Condition of interleaving/contents: 5/5 (full perfs on all panes)
The perforators used also vary, and the differences lie in whether the vertical perforations extend into the selvage:
- Type I - vertical perforations do not extend into the selvage, so that selvage is fully imperforate at the vertical sides.
- Type I(1/2v) - as above, but one corner of the selvage is skimmed off.
- Type AP - Side perfs extend all the way through the selvage, but the middle row of perforations do not.
- Type P - all perforations extend all the way through the selvage.
