Royal Philatelic Society (Great Britain) · London : The Royal Philatelic Society · leaf 106
y the Rt. Hon. The EARL OF CRAWFORD. "^UMlif HAVE the pleasure of bringing before the Society this evening K a new and undescribed Essay or trial of the id. stamp, 1839-40. For permission to do this I have to thank Mr. Lewis Evans, a grandson of Mr. John Dickinson. To my mind it is a stamp of the… … The Photograph A is that of the first rejected Essay, in which it will be seen that the background is different, and the words " rcSTAGE ONE PENNY " are in a single line of small letters below the Head.
