1/2 Penny medium carmine-red, Queen Victoria small horizontal format, engraved Perkins, Bacon & Co., plate 9, watermark 8, horizontal pair on small piece, letters ED-EE, circular "MANCHESTER FE 19 72" and duplex "498", perfect perforations all round, right stamp with minimal negligible perforation split, otherwise fresh-coloured perfect condition, ink plate-number notation on piece below stamps. Plate No. 9 held in reserve and rarest plate of MiNr. 36. Unsigned, photo certificate Albert Louis BPP (2023) "genuine and in a very fresh state of preservation", Mi. 1.500.- + (SGNo. 48), ex BESANCON collection.