Lot 16
ASCENSION SG 35s/37s 1937 CORONATION SET OF 3 PERF SPECIMEN O.G.

E-Sale : British Atlantic | SE24021
Auction: 23 October 2024 at 12:00 BST
£132
Description
1937 Coronation set of 3, perf 'SPECIMEN' (type D20), brilliant o.g. Wonderfully fine and fresh with the faintest trace of hinging. Ex Third Reich presentation album of UPU specimen stamps, specially prepared and hand illustrated in 1941, entitled 'Die Raubpolitik Englands im Spiegel der Briefmarke' (The Imperial plunder of England, mirrored in stamps). The album was reported by Stamp magazine (September 1995) to have been found in the Fuhrer's private study at his Berghof mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden by an American serviceman when the war ended in 1945.

